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TIP 8: Getting Organized

Acrobat 7 contains a nifty new feature called the Organizer. Use the Organizer toyou guessed itorganize your PDF files. Click the Organizer button on the File toolbar or choose File > Organizer > Open Organizer.

The Organizer opens in a separate window and displays three frames (Figure 8). You can drag the splitter bars between the frames to resize each frame as you are working. Click an option in the Categories pane to display its list of PDF files in the Files pane; click a file in the Files pane to display its content in the Pages pane.

The Categories pane uses a hierarchy of folders. There are three types of categories: History, your computer's folders (to which you can add favorites), and Collections.

• History works like the History function on your Web browser. Select a time frame from the History listing to show the PDF files you have opened during that time frame in the Files pane. To clear the history, select the item in the History listing and click the Clear History button at the bottom of the Files pane.

• To add a Favorite Place , click Add a Favorite Place at the bottom of the Organizer Window. Locate the folder you want to add in the resulting dialog, and click OK. You'll see that your selected folder has been added to the Favorite Places list.

• To add a collection, right-click/Control-click the Collections label and follow the prompts to name the collection and add files. Right-click/Control-click an existing collection to add or delete files.

In the Files pane, information displayed about each listed document includes basic information. An unprotected document shows a thumbnail; a document containing security shows only a PDF document icon. The default listing is by filename; you can click the pull-down arrow to choose other sorting options such as keywords, the document's title, or the author.

The file selected in the Files pane is shown in the Pages pane. Use the - and + buttons to change the magnification of the view, or drag the slider to show the file's content. Scroll bars display when the view is magnified if the document contains several pages, or if you have selected more than one document in the Files pane.