How to Create a Table of Contents in Adobe PDF

adding a table of contents to a PDF file isn't a standard feature in Adobe Acrobat but there's still a way you can do it it just requires a few more steps so first we'll go ahead and open our file then we'll open up a new word document what we're going to do is copy our chapter headings and paste them into this word document then format this word document save it as a PDF and use that as our table of contents so let's get started first thing we'll do is go over here to our PDF file and click and drag to highlight our chapter heading and then I'll press ctrl C to copy and click over here to our word document and press control V to paste and then I'll scroll down here on the PDF and click and highlight chapter 2 and press ctrl C to copy and over here on the word document I'll return start a new setting and hit control V to paste now let's go ahead and format this a little bit more so maybe I want these two to be as similar so let's make their fonts 20 and make them bold good deal and let's put our cursor to the top here and press ENTER and up now let's label this table of contents and I'm going to highlight the table of contents here and Center it and let's make this even bigger about 28 maybe even underline it good deal now if we're happy with our formatting we'll click file save as and let's navigate to our desktop click on desktop and save as click on that job down menu and click on PDF and click Save and then next we'll go ahead and go to our tools click on tools and then click on organized pages now we want to insert a page so we'll click insert and will insert from file that will navigate to the file we just created the table of contents click on it and click open now we'll say we want to insert it be for page 1 and click OK and there it is so now let's click back on our tools and click on edit PDF now let's click link ad and here we'll click and drag to create a new link over chapter 1 and for link type we'll make this invisible and we'll click make sure it's clicked on go to a page view and click Next and let's scroll down to our first chapter and when we click set link now when we click on this it will take us straight to that second page where chapter 1 begins so let's give it a try will X out of the edit mode now we're in the regular viewing mode when we hover over chapter 1 and click on that it sets us right to the page where we want to be and that's how you add your own table of contents to a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro

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Published: Thu Jan 28 2016