How to Create Bookmarks in a PDF (Acrobat) File

When you create a PDF file, your goal is to make it as useful to your reader as possible. Bookmarks automatically take your reader to a specific page. You must use the full version of Acrobat - not the free Acrobat Reader - to create and modify PDF documents.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

1. Bookmarks appear on the left side of a PDF document. To view bookmarks, choose Bookmarks or Bookmarks and Page from the View menu, or Show Bookmark from the Window menu (depending on the version of Acrobat you are using).

2. To create a bookmark, first view the page you'd like to bookmark. For example, if your document has a Table of Contents page, navigate to that page.

3. Choose New Bookmark from the Document menu. (You can also click the triangle in the upper right of the Bookmark list to display the Bookmarks menu and then choose New Bookmark.)

4. Click the new untitled bookmark and enter a name for it. (Being obvious is helpful. For example, if you are creating a bookmark for the table of contents, call your bookmark Table of Contents.)

5. Repeat for each bookmark you want to create.

Tips & Warnings

• Bookmarks are especially helpful for new chapter pages and for new sections within a chapter - the bookmark pane becomes a clickable Table of Contents.
• You can also insert clickable "links" in the text of the document. See "How to Create Links to a PDF (Acrobat) Document."
• Keyboard shortcuts for inserting a bookmark are Ctrl+B (Microsoft Windows) or Command-B (Macintosh).

[Poindexter]

on 1/12/2008 Very nice article, and very handy.
The only thing that confused me is that you explicitly state at the top that the full Acrobat and not just the reader is required, and then immediately below that it states: "Things You'll Need: Adobe Acrobat Reader".
Now, if you'd write a supplementary article "editing Acrobat bookmarks with freeware" I'd be really happy camper.