PDF Basics
Answers to frequently asked questions about the basics, for people who are new to working with PDF files.
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Wondering what a PDF is? You’re not alone. More than 33,000 people ask Google that question every month. If you’re new to working with PDF files, or need a refresher on PDF basics, explore our resource library. We cover how to sign a PDF, convert Word Docs into PDFs, extracting pages from PDFs and so much more.
- How to Upload and Share PDFs Online
- How Do You Sign a Document Online?
- How to Edit a PDF Online
- How to Extract, Split, Separate a Page from a PDF
- How to Flip a PDF
- How To Save and Export Pages as PDFs
- How to Highlight In a PDF Online
- Delete Pages From a PDF
- Add a Page to a PDF: Step-by-Step Guide
- How to Rotate PDF Pages
- How to Remove Pages from a PDF
- PDF Editing for Windows 10 and 11
- What Is File Conversion? (What Does Convert PDF Mean?)
- How Do You Make a PDF File?
- How to Convert PDF Files to JPEGs
- PDF Viewer Basics
- How Do You Delete PDF Files?
- What’s a PDF Online Optimizer?
- 8 Types of PDF Files
- How to Rename a File (PDFs and Other File Formats)
- Working With PDFs and Microsoft Word
- How to ‘Merge’ JPG Files Into One PDF
- How to Open a PDF Online, On a Computer Or Mobile Device
- Create a PDF: How Do You Create PDF Files?
- What Is a PDF Reader?
- How to Send a PDF by Email
- What Is a PDF File, Anyway? (And How Do I Open It?)
- E-signature: How to add an electronic signature to a PDF
- How to Print a PDF Online
- How to Convert to PDF File
How To Edit PDFs
Answers to FAQs about how to make special edits to PDF files, including drawing on PDFs, editing PDF metadata, typing on a PDF, redacting PDFs and more. Articles include screenshots with step-by-step instructions.
Other Topics
Here you’ll find tutorials, how-to articles and tips on working with different file types, including PDF files. These “other” topics include answering questions like, “how do you scan a document to create a PDF?” We also go over zipping versus compressing files, as well as a slew of other hot topics that we thought you’d find helpful.