How Do I Link to Acrobat Pages?

Create bookmark links to pages in an Acrobat document.

Adobe Acrobat is software used to create and manage Portable Document Format files. Acrobat has a bookmark feature, in which you can create links to a page in a PDF document. Some bookmarks are created automatically by forming a table of contents in another program, but you can easily create bookmarks manually to link to an Acrobat page. Bookmarks display in the "Bookmarks" panel in the navigation pane on the left side of the Acrobat window.

Instructions

1. Open a PDF document in Adobe Acrobat.

2. Use the scroll bar or the up and down arrow buttons on the toolbar to navigate to a page to which you want to link.

3. Click the "Select" tool (black arrow with I-beam) in the Acrobat toolbar.

4. Select text you want to bookmark. For instance, if you want to bookmark the top of the page, select the first line of text by clicking and dragging your cursor over it. If you want to bookmark an image, draw a rectangle over the image.

5. Click the "Bookmarks" button on the navigation pane on the left side.

6. Click the "New Bookmark" button on the "Bookmarks" panel (or click "Options" and select "New Bookmark"). If you selected text, the text will become the bookmark's label. The bookmark immediately appears in the "Bookmark" panel.

7. Type a name for the bookmark or click to edit the name.

8. Repeat these steps to add more bookmarks. If you want to place a bookmark underneath an existing one, select the existing bookmark before clicking "New Bookmark." Otherwise, the added bookmark will be placed at the end.

References

• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Help: About Bookmarks
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Help: Create a Bookmark