Virtual Classroom

How to Mark Up PDFs with Adobe Acrobat

This course demonstrates the full potential of Adobe Acrobat’s mark-up tools and provides tips to instantly improve your working practices.
DATE

17 Sep. 2026

TIME

9.00am–12.30pm

FORMAT

Virtual classroom via Zoom

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • Completion certificate
  • CIEP upgrade points

PRICE

£185 + VAT

Why should I take this course?

Bemused by the 2023 updates to Acrobat? Frustrated that everything takes longer and nothing is where it should be?

Don't worry – we have figured it all out and guarantee you will be able to work more efficiently than ever following How to Mark Up PDFs with Adobe Acrobat.
Ever wondered how to import comments from another PDF with a single click, filter your changes to easily find your queries, or help your designer apply your changes automatically? Look no further! How to Mark Up PDFs with Adobe Acrobat is packed with ideas to save you time and make your life easier. This course provides practical guidance, demonstrating the full potential of Adobe Acrobat’s mark-up tools and giving you tips to instantly improve your working practices. We will introduce good practice principles to help you work quickly, neatly and efficiently, and enable your design team to easily interpret, manage and implement your changes.

Designed to take you from novice to power-user, the course promotes active learning, using a blended approach of step-by-step demonstrations with opportunities to practise your new skills, ask advice during the session and check your understanding with summary quizzes. After the session, you will have access to handy summary sheets of the key skills you have learned.
Benefits

Control how you learn & progress

Who is it for?

Anyone in publishing who marks up PDFs and wants to work more efficiently, including:
  • editorial staff, including co-ordinators, managers, managing editors, project editors and editorial assistants
  • freelance and in-house staff who work on PDFs
  • indexers
  • production staff, including quality controllers, quality assistants and production editors
  • project managers
  • proofreaders and copy-editors
  • translators.

Learning outcomes

On completing this course you will:
  • have a full understanding of which Adobe Acrobat Commenting tools are best to use and what to use them for
  • know how to decide the best method of mark-up to work quickly, neatly and efficiently
  • be able to customize the appearance of mark-ups
  • understand how to manage mark-ups to improve productivity.

Programme

The half-day session covers:

  • Mark-up principles for best practice
  • Adobe Acrobat mark-up tools – what to use and how
  • Customising your tools
  • Easy wins for efficient working
  • Managing your mark-up.
Details

What you need to know

Delivery

The course is broken down into 2 x 1½-hour sessions plus break. Any information to be completed beforehand will be sent via email.

Zoom

You will need to activate a free Zoom account to join the course. This takes 2 minutes and does not require any payment. It is purely for administrative purposes.

Software

We strongly recommend you complete this course with 2 screens, unless you have a large monitor. This will enable you to watch the demonstrations while you follow along on your own screen. You will need access to a computer or laptop with a camera and microphone and with either Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (which is free) or Adobe Acrobat Professional installed. Please check that you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

In-company

This course is available for in-company training, either virtually or in person at your office. Course content is tailored to suit your requirements. Group sizes range from 5 to 12 attendees. To find out more, email us or call +44 (0)20 8874 2718.

CIEP Points

Completing this course is worth 2 non-core points towards upgrading your CIEP membership.

Certificate

Upon completing the course you will receive a completion certificate from the Institute of Publishing.

Accessibility

Please contact us with any accessibility or special requirements, for example having in-session captions or the learning materials sent to you in advance.

What our students say about us

I very much enjoyed the course. The tutor was very engaging and there was a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. I learned about many useful Acrobat features and tools that I was unaware of or hadn't explored fully. The handouts are superb and cover all the content in a clear and accessible format. Very impressed by everything about the course and will recommend it to colleagues.

- Managing Editor, Little Wandle

The course was excellent, the pace enjoyable – not too rushed or intense. Sarah is super encouraging, enthusiastic and helpful. Her teaching style was incredibly pleasant and we all felt very at ease. All of the tips and exercises were very helpful too. I have gained confidence and am now aware of the full range of tools within the system. This will help me to be more accurate and efficient in my role.

- Class Professional Publishing delegate

What our students say about us

The course was great. A good balance of listening then practical activities. I’ve gained lots of tips which will make things much more efficient and accurate.

- Garnet Education delegate

I loved the course! It was interesting, and our teacher lovely and super informative. I'm already finding it so much quicker and clearer to mark up PDFs, using the method demonstrated and by following a specific proofreading order.”

- Little Tiger Press delegate

What our students say about us

The course has transformed the way I work on PDFs and I am much more confident in using best practice.

- Orion delegate

An excellent course. I’ve learned some great shortcuts and training information to take back to colleagues.

- International Court of Justice delegate

About the trainer

Sarah Sodhi

Trainer
ABOUT SARAH SODHI
Since 1999, Sarah Sodhi has proofed, tagged, bound, corrected, edited, managed, commissioned, subbed, scheduled, estimated and produced a great deal of content – from interactive, multi-media resources to marketing leaflets, from monthly magazines to 900-page medical tomes.

Starting her career at a small medical publisher in Oxford, Sarah produced medical textbooks, journals and a bi-monthly magazine. She then moved into the public sector to work for an adult education charity, introducing formal scheduling procedures, progress-chasing systems and detailed budgets. After this, she immersed herself in the education sector, editing and managing digital and print resources for primary, secondary and adult education publishers.