How to Bookmark in a PDF File
Bookmarks are used in Adobe Acrobat to link to a particular page or section of a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. In Acrobat, bookmarks are displayed in the "Bookmark" panel on the left side of the screen. If you create a table of contents in another publishing program before converting the document to a PDF, bookmarks are automatically created to match the table of contents. However, you also may manually create bookmarks to mark particular pages of interest, making it easy for readers to jump to a part of the document.
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Instructions
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Open a PDF document in Adobe Acrobat.
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Scroll to the page that you want to bookmark.
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Choose the "Select" tool from the toolbar at the top of the screen. It's also available under the "Tools" menu.
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Click and drag your cursor to draw a rectangle around a section of text. To jump to the title of a chapter, draw a rectangle around the the title. The selected text automatically becomes the label of the bookmark. You also may bookmark an image or portion of an image by drawing a rectangle around it.
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Click the "Bookmarks" button. Click the "Options" menu icon, then select "New Bookmark." Click the title of the bookmark to edit the name of the title, if needed.
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Repeat the above steps to add multiple bookmark to the PDF file.
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Create a hierarchy of bookmarks, showing a parent/child relationship between pages or sections of the document. This is useful when jumping to the beginning of a section or chapter, and the individual pages in the chapter. Highlight all the bookmarks you want to nest underneath a parent bookmark, then drag the bookmark icons underneath the parent bookmark icon. You can expand or collapse the nested bookmarks to show the hierarchy.
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Click a bookmark to jump to the corresponding destination in the PDF document.
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