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How to Combine PDFs with Preview on Your Mac

How to Combine PDFs with Preview on Your Mac

By Melissa Holt • Apr 18, 2018

The Mac’s Preview program is powerful, and it can do all sorts of stuff with PDFs, like signing them, helping you to fill out forms electronically, and so on. But another way it excels is in combining PDFs quickly and easily, and we’ve got the scoop in this article!

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How to Add a Watermark in Microsoft Word for Mac

How to Add a Watermark in Microsoft Word for Mac

By Melissa Holt • Aug 10, 2017

If you’ve ever wanted to add some background text to a Word file on your Mac to indicate that it was a draft (or to show its importance), we’ve got the scoop in today’s article. We’ll also cover how to insert images as watermarks, too!

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How to Extract Text from a PDF Using Your Mac’s Free Built-In Tools

How to Extract Text from a PDF Using Your Mac’s Free Built-In Tools

By Melissa Holt • Jun 28, 2017

If you want to extract text from a PDF on your Mac, then one easy-as-pie way to go about it is to use TextEdit as a go-between. Because you can paste plain text into that program, it makes such tasks a snap! Melissa Holt’s going to go over the whole process for us.

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How to Sign a PDF in Mail on the Mac

How to Sign a PDF in Mail on the Mac

By Melissa Holt • Jun 11, 2017

It’s a headache and a half to print out documents, sign them, and then scan them back in. Luckily, Mail on the Mac has a way that you can save your own signature and then insert it into any PDF attachment to make quick work of approvals and contracts. Melissa Holt will tell us how!

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How to Change the Default View for PDFs in Adobe Acrobat

How to Change the Default View for PDFs in Adobe Acrobat

By Jim Tanous • Dec 1, 2016

The default single page view in Adobe Acrobat is fine for viewing most PDFs, but if you prefer a different view, don’t waste time changing it with each new document. Instead, set your preferred view type and zoom in the Acrobat Preferences. Here’s how to do it.

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How to Create a PDF from Multiple Images in Windows 10

How to Create a PDF from Multiple Images in Windows 10

By Jim Tanous • Aug 3, 2016

Need to package multiple files or images into a single PDF? If you’re running Windows, you don’t need any additional software. Here’s how to create a PDF from multiple files in Windows 10.

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How to Extract Pages from a PDF Document in Mac OS X Preview

How to Extract Pages from a PDF Document in Mac OS X Preview

By Jim Tanous • Aug 4, 2015

The Preview app in OS X is a powerful tool that lets you perform basic modifications to a PDF document such as rearranging or deleting pages and changing metadata. One feature that may be less well known is the ability to extract one or more pages from an existing PDF document. Read on to learn two methods to do it.

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How to Disable the Acrobat Safari Plug-in

How to Disable the Acrobat Safari Plug-in

By Jim Tanous • Apr 27, 2014

Adobe Acrobat Pro offers powerful PDF editing and management tools, but it also installs an annoying plug-in that hijacks Safari’s built-in PDF viewer in OS X. Here’s how to disable the Acrobat Pro Safari plug-in while still maintaining access to the Acrobat desktop app when you need it.

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How to Create a Custom Keyboard Shortcut to Export to PDF in OS X

How to Create a Custom Keyboard Shortcut to Export to PDF in OS X

By Jim Tanous • Oct 24, 2013

OS X Mavericks makes creating a PDF easy with a new “Export to PDF” command right in the File menu. But you can speed the process up even more by assigning it a custom keyboard shortcut. Here’s how.

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