When we run Adobe Acrobat training courses in London, one of the first topics we tackle is bookmarks. Almost everyone will agree that PDFs are a great invention but it can sometimes be rather tedious to navigate through them. That’s where bookmarks become useful: they are clickable headings which take you to a specific part of the PDF document and allow you to get around a lot faster than scrolling or paging.

If you distribute PDFs that contain important information about your products or services, you want to ensure that your audience can access key facts as quickly as possible. Adding a few bookmarks to your PDF files can add value to them by making them more attractive to potential clients.

The bookmarks panel is one of Acrobat’s many navigation panels. It is normally displayed on the left of the Acrobat Reader screen. To show bookmarks, click the bookmark icon or choose View - Navigation Panels - Bookmarks. When you click on a bookmark, you are taken to the page that it is linked to.

Bookmarks cannot be created with Acrobat Reader: you will need either Acrobat Professional or Acrobat Standard, the commercial versions of Acrobat. But then you will also need one of these two bits of software to create your PDF in the first place.

Once you have created the PDF, open it with Acrobat Standard or Professional and open the Bookmarks panel. Next, navigate to the first page that you want your audience to be able to find easily, choose New Bookmark from the Options menu in the top right of the Bookmarks panel and enter a name for the bookmark. Repeat this procedure to create as many bookmarks as you think useful.

Creating bookmarks can be bit tedious. However, there are a few ways of speeding things up. Firstly, you don’t have to type a name for each bookmark. You can highlight some text on the page then choose New Bookmark. Acrobat uses the highlighted text as the name of the bookmark. Another thing you can do is to use the keyboard shortcut for New Bookmark. This, as you can probably guess, is Control-B.

It is also possible to generate bookmarks automatically. For example, PDFMaker, a utility for Microsoft Office 97, 2002 and 2003 which is automatically installed along with Acrobat Standard or Professional producing an extra menu in Office programs called “Adobe PDF” and an “Adobe PDFMaker” toolbar.

When you create a PDF using the Acrobat PDFMaker, any paragraphs formatted with a Word heading style, e.g., “Heading 1″, “Heading 2″, etc., will automatically create PDF bookmarks as do all entries in tables of content and indexes. In the same way, if you PDF an Excel workbook with the PDFMaker, bookmarks to each sheet will be automatically generated. In PowerPoint, too, bookmarks to every slide in the presentation will be automatically generated.

There are also DTP packages which will automatically generate PDF bookmarks in the same way as Microsoft Word (from styles, indexes and tables of content). Naturally InDesign will do this but also QuarkXPress and Serif PagePlus. These three software packages have the additional benefit that you don’t actually need to own Acrobat Standard or Professional. The facility to create PDFs is built-in to each of these packages.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that bookmarks only be used to link to a particular page within the PDF document. (They can do tons of other things as well.) In any case, they actually link to a view not a page. Thus, for example, if a page in your PDF file contains a map, you can zoom in on the map till it fills the screen and create a bookmark of that view. When your user clicks the bookmark, he or she will be taken to the zoom level that was current when you created the bookmark.

Knowing how to make gold in world of warcraft is a real life skill integrated in the game. It reflects real life economics of buying low and sell high, be that a luxury, commodity or essential item, food or anything that is needed in the game by the 9 or so million players logging on wow worldwide.

To buy items form other players and vendors, you need gold. To get training and acquire new skills from the trainer, you need gold. Gold enhances your character in World of Warcraft as in any other MMORPG game.

Making money from the AH (auction house) is easy. Just use the search button to scan prices in the auction house and sell your items for the best price you can get to make a profit. To do this can be fairly time consuming and many players tend to do this almost full time as they have little time to do anything else. However this can be made easier by using the auctioneer add on to scan prices giving you a good idea of what prices are like on your server and enable you to undercut other players so you can sell faster. Or use it to find items that are greatly under priced so you can re-sell quickly at a profit.

The best thing you can do is to always make your auction as short as possible, like two hours, at times when the servers are busy like in the evening when everyone is at home.

World of Warcraft undoubtedly integrates the best questing compared to other MMORPG games. Quests can be used to give you a huge advantage over others. Always get hold of a quest whenever you can. Leveling a quest takes little time, but EXP gained from killings in the quest and the rewards of completing a quest have their distinct advantages like gaining some important items and of course money. Add on bonuses of quest completion can lend you greater speed and better character through becoming richer.

Fishing is the other great profession for making gold in wow. On a few servers quite a few players make up to 300 gold an hour without any problem. Besides it’s not just fish that you can catch but also valuable items like blue and rare purple items that you can very easily re-sell at the AH for hundreds if not thousands pieces of gold.

If you do a lot of grinding you will collect a lot of money, items etc from mobs that you obliterate which add up to a lot of gold over time. It is the most boring way to make gold in world of warcraft but the most sure. But it is even more rewarding and effective if you have good knowledge of places where you can grind monsters where you return in gold is quite high.

I know for a fact that grinding giants in winterspring is very profitable if you are at level 50. An hour spent here grinding these mobs should yield on avarage 50 to 100 gold.

A place of residence is there to protect us from anything this world can throw at us, whether the threat be from nature or from someone in our own society.

In today’s world, sad as it may seem, to keep your residence and or business safe from the law breaking demographic of the general public, it really is vital that you install some kind of home or business security device.

Home security systems, not difficult to set up any more!

The days when home and business security systems were only for the rich have long since passed. Thanks to the continuous progression of technology, home and business security systems are now easy for the general public to purchase and set up.

Most robbers these days will attempt to gain access to your premises via the entrance points where the least amount of people can be found, this normally means a side or back window or door. If you do not have some kind of security device watching over these entrance points you really are making it far too easy.

Home security systems today are generally very efficient and easy to interact with. Some of the best systems today are wireless, since with these systems you can very easily set up cameras around your home.

With a lot of these new systems you can install cameras throughout your business and/or residence and then with the help of the Internet view your business and or residence live from anywhere on the planet!

But of course with modern home security systems you are in no way just limited to using security cameras, there are so many different types of deterrents you can utilize. Alarm systems that immediately notify anyone in the area of your business and or residence and then call the local law enforcements, infrared sensors that detect when someone crosses them etc, etc.

Don’t get all carried away with really complex expensive security gadgets minding over your front door and other main entrances and then go and put less emphasis on the lesser used entrance points. Your home or business security is only as strong as your weakest entrance point.

When a thief first surveys your property to decide whether or not it is a good candidate for him or her to break into, the thief’s primary question will be whether or not he or she can get in and out easily with minimal risk of being detected. So one of the best things you can do is make it obvious that your property is well protected with a security device, it will make no sense for the thief to attempt to break into your property if there are other candidates that provide less risk for him or her.

So in closing I would say that in today’s world is really is a necessity to install a home and or business security system, without one it really is just too easy for the modern day thief.