Acrobat 9 has increased the usability when creating PDFs from a selection in Word and Excel. This is a very valuable tip and trick and one that sometimes goes unnoticed. This short podcast from Adobe's Jonathan Bowman will show you how to use this feature in Acrobat.

Acrobat 9 gives you several more PDF Maker options when converting excel files to PDF. Upon selecting the PDF Maker, you now have the ability to choose the entire workbook, a selection or which specific sheets you want to include. Jonathan Bowman of Adobe will also show you how to extract excel data from a PDF file to be reused in Excel.

The web is ephemeral and is changing all of the time.

How do you preserve a copy of a web page so you can refer to it again?

In this video, Adobe's Rick Borstein takes you through the enhanced Web Capture tool in Adobe Acrobat 9.

Using it, you can select portions of a web page to capture, preserve interactive elements, and save it all as a nice, compact PDF.

You can visit Rick's Blog at www.adobe.com/go/acrolaw

If you are old enough, you probably learned to type on a typewriter.

Now, in the digital age, there are times when you need to fill out a form that doesn't have form fields, or simply add a piece of text here or there to a document.

It's easy to scan in a document, and then type on top of it using Adobe Acrobat 9. The new version allows you to set font, size, color, etc., and is easier to use.

Video by Rick Borstein. www.adobe.com/go/acrolaw

Sometimes, you need to edit a PDF, and you don't have the original document.

It could be that you lost the original, or perhaps someone sent you a PDF and you need to create a new version.

Whatever the reason, Acrobat 9 offers much improved export to Microsoft Word. Text flows and many elements such as lists are retained.

In this video, Adobe's Rick Borstein walks you through this new feature. You can visit Rick's blog at www.adobe.com/go/acrolaw.