Adobe Acrobat Advanced Training
Create smarter forms, tidy complex PDFs and streamline real‑world document workflows.
A practical advanced Acrobat course for everyday business use
This Acrobat Advanced course focuses on the tools your team genuinely need, building easy‑to‑use forms, gathering data, adding simple calculations, preparing documents for clients and fixing messy PDFs. No JavaScript, no developer features, just clear, confident Acrobat skills you can use immediately.
About this Acrobat Advanced course
This course builds on your existing Acrobat skills and takes you into the practical tools that make everyday document production easier. We focus on creating smarter forms, gathering data, tidying complex PDFs and preparing documents for clients, all without the technical features that most teams don’t need.
Everything is taught step‑by‑step using clear, real‑world examples so you finish the day with confident, repeatable workflows you can use straight away.
Who is this course for
This Acrobat Advanced course is ideal for anyone who already uses Acrobat for everyday tasks and now needs to work with more complex, business‑ready documents. It’s designed for people who handle forms, client‑supplied PDFs, reports, contracts or multi‑page documents and want to produce cleaner, more professional results with less frustration.
It’s perfect for:
Administrators and office teams who need to create tidy, easy‑to‑use forms for staff or clients
HR, finance and compliance teams who gather information, process expenses or manage secure documents
Managers and coordinators who prepare reports, combine multiple PDFs or tidy up messy files from different sources
Trainers, educators and support staff who want interactive PDFs with clear instructions, navigation or multimedia
Anyone preparing documents for external clients who needs consistent formatting, signatures, redaction and secure workflows
Teams moving away from Word forms and wanting something cleaner, more reliable and easier for people to complete
This course is not technical or developer‑focused it’s, for real‑world users who want Acrobat to behave itself, produce professional documents and make form‑based tasks quicker and easier.
What you’ll Learn
Advanced forms & data gathering
Create clear, professional PDF forms your team or clients can complete easily
Add text fields, dropdowns, checkboxes and signature fields
Build a simple expenses form that totals mileage, hotels, meals and other costs
Use calculated fields (add, subtract, multiply) without any JavaScript
Format numbers, currency and dates automatically
Add tooltips and instructions to make forms user‑friendly
Set required fields and validation rules
Export form data to Excel or CSV for reporting
Combine multiple form submissions into one dataset
Create reusable form templates for repeat tasks
Interactive and Multimedia
Add video or audio for instructions or demonstrations
Create clickable navigation for long documents
Use buttons for “Submit”, “Reset” or “Print”
Build interactive PDFs that feel modern and easy to use
Advanced editing & document control
Edit scanned documents using OCR
Fix messy or broken PDFs supplied by clients
Combine and organise large document sets
Tidy legacy PDFs and standardise formatting
Export cleanly to Word, Excel or PowerPoint
Apply redaction safely for sensitive information
Use signatures, approvals and secure workflows
Add password protection and permissions
Real world document workflows
Edit scanned documents using OCR
Fix messy or broken PDFs supplied by clients
Combine and organise large document sets
Tidy legacy PDFs and standardise formatting
Export cleanly to Word, Excel or PowerPoint
Apply redaction safely for sensitive information
Use signatures, approvals and secure workflows
Add password protection and permissions
Action Wizard (Practical Automation)
Create simple automated actions to speed up repetitive tasks
Build a one‑click workflow for preparing client documents
Apply consistent settings across multiple PDFs (OCR, optimise, clean up)
Add headers, footers or watermarks automatically
Run actions to tidy scanned documents or standardise formatting
Save actions as reusable templates for your team
Use automation safely without scripts or technical features
Course Delivery
Live online Adobe Acrobat Course
Live online training delivered through Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Sessions are fully interactive with screen‑sharing, guided practice and plenty of time for questions. Ideal for individuals and teams who prefer shorter sessions or learning from their own workspace.
Onsite Adobe Acrobat Course
Available at your workplace across the Midlands and surrounding regions. Onsite sessions are practical, friendly and shaped around your documents, forms and real‑world workflows.
Pre-course meeting
A short pre‑course meeting is included to discuss your aims, the documents you use and any specific challenges you’d like covered. This ensures the training is tailored to your exact needs.
Course completion certificate
Everyone who completes the training receives a digital course completion certificate, suitable for CPD records, HR training logs and internal development portfolios.
Lifetime after-course support
Training includes lifetime support by email, recorded video explanations and online meetings for more complex questions. You’re never left stuck once the course ends.
Flexible timing and dates
We appreciate that not everyone has the time or the patience for a full day so for the online Acrobat Training we offer flexible options. Split your course into two half day sessions. We also have short sprints available for anyone looking to address a specific topic or problem and would like to book a two hour slot with a live trainer.
→ Take a look at our half day and short sprint options
Booking with us
Adobe training is available for individuals and teams UK wide with flexible options for onsite delivery or live online sessions. Courses are practical, friendly and tailored to the work you do every day, helping you build confidence with the tools that matter most.
If you’d like to check dates or talk through the best format for your team, you can get in touch using the details on our Contact page →
Adobe Acrobat Training FAQ
How do Online Adobe Acrobat Advanced Courses work?
Online Adobe Acrobat Courses are available virtually with a live instructor who interacts with you throughout your course via video, audio and screen sharing in real time.
All our digital design courses are available online virtually in video editing software such as Zoom, Teams, WebEX and Google.
24 /7 Online Adobe InDesignTraining
Because of the flexibility of virtual online courses training can be run on a 24 /7 basis including evenings, overnight and weekends.
1 /2 Day Bite Sized Virtual Online Training Sessions
Lots of people prefer to learn in shorter sessions so because of the flexibility with Online Training we can break full days training into managable half day chunks.
Please note we can only offer this for online training
How do Onsite Adobe Acrobat Advanced Courses work?
The onsite Adobe Acrobat Courses are hosted on your premises to deliver the training.
We travel UK wide including most major towns, cities and their surrounding areas.
The major benefit of onsite Adobe Acrobat Training is that it has a far more personal approach than a traditional classroom delivery.
Onsite Adobe Acrobat Training Course
- From the very first point of contact the Acrobat Course is about you and your company
- There is no travelling for you or your team saving travel, hotel and any additional expenses
- It is cheaper than traditional training
- Nothing about this Acrobat Training is generic, it is designed totally around you
- Prior to the Acrobat Course we chat to discuss your aims, content preferences & knowledge
- The Acrobat Course is tailored to suit you and your team
- Flexible dates & times to suit you
- Full after course support for as long as you need it
- The course is focused entirely on you and your individual company requirements
- There is no travelling involved for you or your team because the trainer comes directly to you.
- This is not a generic one size fits all course as training can be tailored to suit you
- Dates and times are arranged to suit your schedule.
Pre-course online meeting /voice call
Prior to your training course we organise an online meeting to introduce your trainer and discuss the logistics, course content that works best for you and your team.
Tailored Adobe Acrobat Training Courses
Tailored Adobe Acrobat Training is perfect for private company courses, 121 sessions or larger team roll-outs.
You can mix and match content from any of our courses including mixing levels such as intro /intermediate etc or choose to add /remove content to suit you
What do you learn on this Adobe Acrobat Advanced Training?
This Adobe Acrobat Advanced Training Course guides you through the tools, features and techniques needed to create .PDF documents for print or digital output.
Signatures and Sign in Acrobat
Add signatures, work with multiple PDF’s and design practical fully functioning PDF forms to gather data online. The course shows how to create new PDF’s, edit existing ones, best practice when working with with text, graphics and OCR, securing documents and signing them.
Adobe Acrobat Forms
Create and design advanced Acrobat form pages, add calculation fields, understand hierarchical naming, form fields, buttons and button properties.
Acrobat’s Action Wizard
Action Wizard Logic, executing existing wizards, create and execute new wizards and export to other users.
Do you record the Online Adobe Acrobat Virtual Sessions?
We do, we’re happy to record your Adobe InDesign training but unfortunately due to privacy issues can only offer this for 121 sessions and closed company groups.
24 /7 and Weekend Online Adobe Acrobat Training
Because of the flexibility of virtual online training all of the Online Adobe Training sessions run 24 /7, evenings, overnight and during the weekend.
*We can only offer this for virtual online training courses
1 /2 Day Online Adobe Acrobat Training sessions
We realise that not everyone likes to have all their training over full days so we can split the full days courses into 1 /2 day sessions.
*Unfortunately we are unable to offer this for our Onsite Adobe Courses
How to Book the Adobe Acrobat Training Course
Booking with us
Please get in touch with us via the online booking form.
We will then get in touch and send the details of booking reservation and find out your timeframe for training.
We will then send across dates.
Once the booking is confirmed we then organise a pre-course call /meeting to discuss the course and any logistics around the day.
Payment
Payment for training is via BACS or Credit Card
Credit Card payment is via Stripe
*Greta Powell Training Ltd does not collect or store your card details.
Purchase Orders
We accept purchase orders from UK registered companies and the public sector.
