Adobe Acrobat
Key features and benefits for Microsoft users
Learn how to manage Microsoft Office XP business documents with Acrobat 5.0.
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Adobe Acrobat is the ideal complement to Microsoft Office
Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 and Microsoft® Office are the perfect complements to each other for sharing documents online. Over 70% of Acrobat users convert their Microsoft documents to Adobe Portable Document Format to reliably share documents with customers, colleagues, and partners around the world. Using Acrobat 5.0 ensures documents can be opened across a broad range of applications, software versions, and hardware.
See how Acrobat 5.0 can help solve common office challenges
Reliably share information across your extended enterprise
With Adobe Acrobat 5.0, anyone with free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software can open your document regardless of hardware, software, or software version. Use Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to convert office documents to Adobe PDF files, and e-mail or post Adobe PDF files on the Web.
Distribute with confidence, and protect corporate brand elements
With Adobe Acrobat 5.0, you can feel confident that your office documents will look exactly as intended, with layout, formatting, tables, and charts intact.
Securely deliver confidential information
Use Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to maintain document security. Protect Adobe PDF documents with passwords before you distribute them. Acrobat supports 128-bit RC4 encryption to keep confidential content secure. Added password protection prevents others from editing, repurposing, or even printing your document. Digital signatures and validation allow you to see who sent the document and whether it has been altered. And, you can easily compare two versions of the Adobe PDF file to find out exactly how your document has been modified.
Get to market faster with speedy document review and approval
Use Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to work smarter as a team. Review any type of document — from spreadsheets and reports to CAD drawings. Reviewers can easily use electronic markup tools, such as strike-through, underline, and highlighting. They can even add electronic sticky notes to your document from within their Web browsers. Colleagues can digitally approve your document with e-signatures — all by your deadline.
Take advantage of smooth integration with Microsoft products
A summary of what's new in Acrobat 5.0:
bullet Simply click the Adobe PDF icon in your Microsoft Office toolbar to convert your Office document to an Adobe PDF file.
bullet Easily extract images, text, or entire pages from multiple Adobe PDF sources for use in new plans, reports, or presentations created in Microsoft Office.
bullet Combine multiple documents created in Microsoft Office applications (for example, Power Point, Excel, Word, and Web pages) into one Adobe PDF document.
bullet The user interface in Adobe Acrobat is similar to that of Microsoft Office, providing a perfect complement to one another.
bullet Adobe Acrobat 5.0 works smoothly in Microsoft Windows® XP.
 

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