Acrobat Keyboard Shortcuts How to Apply Acrobat Keyboard Shortcuts in Acrobat XI You can use Acrobat keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Acrobat XI to perform commands. Acrobat keyboard shortcuts in Acrobat XI appear in the Menu Bar to the right of the specific command to which they correspond.
For example, if you click the “Edit” command in the Menu Bar, you can see the Acrobat keyboard shortcut for the “Copy” command, which is “Ctrl+C” on the keyboard. You can then click away from the Menu Bar drop-down menu to retract it. Next, select the content to copy within the PDF, hold down the “Ctrl” key on the keyboard, and then strike the “C” key on the keyboard to copy the selected content. If your goal is to become faster using Acrobat, learning the Acrobat keyboard shortcuts will assist you. Notice that not every command in the Menu Bar has a corresponding Acrobat keyboard shortcut. However, there is a keystroke combination you can perform to access every command.
If you press the “Alt” key on your keyboard and then examine the Menu Bar, you will see that each command category (like “File” or “Edit”) has a single underlined letter- for example the “F” in “File,” and the “V” in the “View” command. If you hold down the “Alt” key on your keyboard and strike the underlined letter for the corresponding command category on your keyboard, you will see its drop-down menu appear. At that point if you examine the sub-commands in the drop-down menu, you’ll notice that each one of the subcommands also has a single letter underlined.