- 1). Open a PDF document in Adobe Acrobat.
- 2). Scroll to the page that you want to bookmark.
- 3). Choose the "Select" tool from the toolbar at the top of the screen. It's also available under the "Tools" menu.
- 4). 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.
- 5). 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.
- 6). Repeat the above steps to add multiple bookmark to the PDF file.
- 7). 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.
- 8). Click a bookmark to jump to the corresponding destination in the PDF document.
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