Jumping Back and Forth within Internal PDF Links

My first guest post is courtesy of my amazing, tech savvy husband. During a review of a PDF music appreciation course, Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music I found myself wishing there was a way to jump back and forth within internal links in a PDF. It's easy enough to jot down what page number you are on with pen and paper for reference, but in this day and age, why use a pencil when you can use a keyboard?

This is a built in function of Adobe. Users can do this in one of three ways:

Method 1

·         Click on any link in the pdf

·         Once at that page, follow these steps

o   Go to view in the adobe menu toolbar

o   Then select page navigation

o   Then select previous view - you will be taken back to the original page

Method 2 (users can use keyboard shortcuts)

·         Click on any link in the pdf

·         Users can then press their alt key + the left arrow - that will take them back to the originating link

·         Users can also go forward to the linked page (basically go back and forth) by using the alt key + the right arrow

Method 3 (users can place the shortcuts in method one to always be "on" and visible in the adobe toolbar so they don't have to use keyboard shortcuts or menus - see adobe with nav pic)

·         In Adobe, go to View

·         Then Show/Hide

·         Then Toolbar Items

·         Then Page Navigation

·         Then select "Show All Page Navigation Tools"

·         Users will now have the toolbar always open. They can use the grey arrows (underlined in red below) like reading a book - forward or back one page or to the beginning or end. The blue arrows  (underlined in blue below) can help you jump back and forth between links.