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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD

PDF Portfolios and combined PDFs

Last updated 10/11/2011

Other options for combining files

Create merged PDFs

In a merged PDF, converted documents flow into a single PDF as sequential pages.

1 Choose File > Create > Combine Files Into A Single PDF.

If a PDF is currently open, it appears in the list of included files.

2 From the Add Files menu, choose any of the following:

• To add individual files, choose Add Files, then select the files.

• To add all the files in a folder, choose Add Folders, then select the folder.

Note: If the folder contains files that Acrobat does not support for PDF conversion, those files are not added.

• To add files that you have combined into PDFs in other sessions, choose Reuse Files. Then select a previously

created PDF from the left list, and from the right list, select the component documents. (If you have not used the

Combine Files dialog box before, this option is not available.)

• To add currently open PDFs, choose Add Open Files, then select the files.

In Windows, you can also drag files or folders from the desktop or a folder into the Combine Files dialog box. Or right-

click the selected items and choose Combine Supported Files In Acrobat.

If any files are password-protected, one or more messages appear, in which you must enter the correct password.

You can add a file more than once. For example, one file could be used for transition pages between other files or a

blank file could be used to add blank pages.

3 As needed, do any of the following in the list of files:

• To rearrange the order of files on the list, select a file, then drag it or click Move Up or Move Down.

• To sort the list, click the column name that you want to sort by. Click again to sort in reverse order.

• To convert only part of a multipage source file, double-click the file, or select the file and click the Choose Pages

button (see Note). In the Preview, review and select pages, as needed, following the instructions in the dialog box,

which vary according to file type, and click OK.

Note: The name of the Choose button varies according to file type. For PDFs and Word documents, it is labeled Choose

Pages; for PowerPoint files, it is Choose Slides; for Excel files, Choose Sheets.

4 Click Options to specify conversion settings.

5 Specify a file size, and then click Combine Files.

A status dialog box shows the progress of the file conversions. Some source applications start and close automatically.