After such ground-breaking BoM proofs have been revealed and more than one faithful truth-seeker has been so uplifted, I feel very useless sitting here with my porcelain fragments and barrel straps...
None the less, I just went to the library's little ETD training class and since I don't get to talk to most of you in person very often and don't have a clue where most of you are at in the process, I thought I'd share this in the hopes of being useful...This is the gist of the class and it’s all you’ll get going to the library class, so I wouldn’t bother going.
So here we go…
- In Word, set your personal styles as you’re going for Chapter, Sub-chapter, Table, etc (all needed to show up in bookmarks). This is only useful if you do it as you write, rather than after it’s all done. If you’ve already got a near-finished typed-up product, the trainer says to just create a pdf and make the bookmarks there. Styles in Word will only save time if you do them as you go for most of your document.
- Create a pdf (in Windows 2007, use PDFMaker and go to Preferences to choose which styles to import as bookmarks and set the level of priority.
- Check bookmarks reference to the correct location.
- If not, got to set destination and click the actual place it belongs for each incorrect bookmark. The multi-media lab has Acrobat Professional, which is what you need, but it has a bug where it tends to make the wrong destination, so be sure and check.
- To Create Another Bookmark within the PDF, highlight the text for the bookmark and click create. To change order of bookmarks, drag around in bookmark tab. Also can nest (so all Chapter 1 subheadings are nested within Chapter 1 bookmark) by dragging to icon or to text.
- Before saving, go to File Properties and select that it show page and bookmark tab when opened initially. The Library just prefers that.
- If you want to import several pdfs into a single pdf document, choose Create From Multiple Files. Choose all you want, put them in the desired order and create.
- If you’ve created your pdf and then you find an error, go into your original Word Document, fix it and not which pages are changed. Make this a new pdf. Go to the pages tab in your pdf, right click and choose replace with page from new pdf. Choose which pages from old and new documents to change out and click ok.
*If you have questions, the multimedia lab in the No Shhh Zone of the library is the best place to find answers on the pdf process. That’s also the main place on campus where you’ll get access to Acrobat Professional, which you’ll have to use.
Additional Resources:
As a reminder, there are templates, examples, and lists of requirements on the Grad Studies website (they’re forms ADV 11 and 12, various parts).
BYU’s Online Tutorial for Creating an ETD ready pdf—really slow and boring, though!
Download a free trial of Acrobat Professional
Microsoft’s Walk-Through on Creating Quick Styles in Word 2007
5 comments:
Thanks for the tips and saving me from attending!
Hey Jenny,
Thanks!! We all owe you big time for going and posting this!
Jenny,
Thanks for posting this! It's great information.
BTW, saw your car near my parent's house, parked in front of the Roskelly's house. Do you know them?
Glad this was useful. We actually live in the Roskelly's basement now that Tia's married and moved on. But Pirates resulted in my already knowing the neighborhood, so thanks for the previous experience on the backroads to home!
Also...Scott is a great resource for the bookmarks etc. for the PDF. He can even color code them nicely:) (see Jardine 2007)!
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