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Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft Teams offers a comprehensive suite of PDF tools, streamlining PDF operations. This integrated PDF solution enables you to:
- Use Adobe's advanced web-based viewer for opening and viewing PDFs online.
- Use the AI Assistant feature to help you quickly and easily understand complex PDF documents. It can also help you summarize and get insights from your MS Teams meeting transcripts.
- Transform PDFs into editable formats like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or RTF, maintaining original fonts, formatting, and layouts, accessible via mobile or web.
- Create PDFs that retain fonts, formatting, and layouts with password protection options.
- Edit PDFs by modifying text and images, reorganizing pages, or dividing documents into multiple PDFs.
- Merge various Microsoft documents and PDFs into a single file, with options to minimize file size for easier sharing or storage.
- Work collaboratively on PDF documents, marking them with sticky notes, highlights, and freehand drawings for effective communication.
- Easily fill out and sign PDF forms.
- Ensure accessibility with screen reader support, keyboard navigation, and support for High Contrast modes to aid those with visual impairments.
- Enhance your viewing experience by adjusting Acrobat's theme settings to light, dark, or according to the MS Teams preference.
Supported browsers
Modern browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft® Edge, support Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft® Teams.
Starting October 1, 2021, Acrobat tools discontinued support for the Microsoft® Edge Legacy browser (Internet Explorer 11 or older versions). To use Microsoft® Teams, download the desktop app or open Microsoft® Teams in supported web browsers.
Supported languages
The Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft® Teams is available in the following languages:
English | Danish |
French | Finnish |
German | Norwegian |
Japanese | Simplified Chinese |
Italian | Traditional Chinese |
Spanish | Korean |
Dutch | Czech |
Portuguese | Polish |
Swedish | Russian |
Turkish |
Install Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft® Teams
Adobe Acrobat has streamlined its integration with Microsoft services. When you install the Acrobat app on Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, or Microsoft 365, it will automatically be available on the other two platforms as well. This unified approach ensures that you have consistent access to Acrobat’s features across your Microsoft applications, simplifying your document management experience.
After you've installed Adobe Acrobat, use it as a Personal Tab, Bot, Message Action, or Message extension in Microsoft® Teams. You can collaborate on PDFs using Adobe Acrobat in Microsoft® Teams in the following ways:
- Share a PDF as a Tab in a team-channel for others to view and comment.
- Use the options (...) menu to open the PDF using the Acrobat viewer in the Teams Chats and Channels.
- Use the Adobe Acrobat Message extension to share the PDF as an adaptive card for collaboration.
- Use the Adobe Acrobat app on the left rail to use the Acrobat tools.
A. Share a PDF as a Tab B. Use Adobe Acrobat from the options menu C. Use the Adobe Acrobat message extension D. Use the Adobe Acrobat app in the left rail to access personal tabs and to use chatbot, control notifications and provide feedback
Use AI Assistant and Gen summary
Acrobat AI Assistant tool can quickly provide comprehensive answers to your questions based on PDF content. The AI Assistant links to text and data tables within the document and suggests follow-up questions.
The Generative Summary tool generates document outlines with headings and summaries highlighting key points. This feature provides key insights, processing PDF content in chunks for faster summaries.
Refer to Adobe Acrobat's Generative AI guide for details on usage, guidelines, and limitations.
If you're unable to use the AI Assistant, contact your admin to request access.
Maximize meeting efficiency with AI Assistant
To make your meeting more efficient with AI Assistant, you first set up your meeting with the participants and record/transcribe it. After the meeting, you'll receive a notification and suggested questions to help you get started. You can then use the AI Assistant prompt to:
- Create meeting notes: Selecting Create meeting notes on the bot notification opens the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Viewer and creates a meeting summary. You can send the summary to all participants by selecting Send Summary. It will then be available in the meeting chat.
- Get useful insights: You can ask the AI assistant to create meeting notes, list raised concerns, understand meeting goals, and identify the next steps.
Admins must enable the meeting transcripts notifications settings in the Admin Config Portal to allow Acrobat to notify organizers after their recorded meeting.
If your admin has turned on the meeting transcripts notifications setting and you don't receive this notification, ensure you have turned on notifications from the Acrobat for Microsoft Teams app. To do so, go to the Chat in Adobe Acrobat app in Microsoft Teams, type "Notifications on," and select Send.
You can edit text or add images to a PDF file using the Adobe Acrobat app.
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Select the PDF file you want to edit from your document library.
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Choose Edit from the Adobe Acrobat preview window. The PDF becomes editable, and the Edit panel opens on the left. If the PDF is generated from a scanned document, the Acrobat app automatically runs OCR to make the text and images editable.
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In the edit mode, you can perform the following operations:
Share, preview, print, or collaborate on PDF documents
You can share PDFs in your team's channel or inside a chat. You can also collaborate using the integrated Adobe Acrobat services in the following ways:
Add comments to a PDF
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Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat viewer.
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In the quick tool, select the desired annotation tool and select where you want to place the note. The following comment types are available for use:
- Add comments: Choose if you want to add a sticky note or a text note and select where you want to place the note.
- Highlight selected text: Choose to Highlight, Underline, or Strikethrough the text in the PDF.
- Draw freehand: Select the drawing tool and mark the PDF.
Note:- The owner of the shared PDF gets the notification for all comments, replies, comment deletes, and edits.
- Other users get notifications only for the replies to the conversation in which they participated.
Add comments or text comment Add comments or text comment Highlight, Underline, Strikethrough Highlight, Underline, Strikethrough Draw freehand Draw freehand When you select any text in the PDF, the following extra commenting tools are available for use:
- Strikethrough Text: Select to strike-through text.
- Underline Text: Choose to underline the selected text.
A. Add comments B. Highlight selected text C. Underline selected text D. Strikethrough selected text E. Edit text F. Copy text
Your added comments are automatically saved to the PDF.
Note:You can use @mentions to invite a reviewer to your document. Ensure that the individual you @ mention in a comment on your PDF file has permission to view and respond to your comment.
Convert or edit files
Use the Adobe Acrobat app to access the online tools and easily create, combine, organize, sign, and send PDF files from within Microsoft® Teams. You can also convert PDF files into editable Word or Excel files. The Adobe Acrobat App tab is selected by default. From the App tab, you can access the Acrobat home page, which includes:
- An onboarding tour.
- Easy navigation.
- A single location for all your documents.
- Similar and related workflows are grouped.
A. Acrobat App Home B. Chat bot C. About Acrobat app D. Your profile E. View all Acrobat tools F. Upload a file G. View all documents H. View recent files I. Featured tools J. Acrobat tools - Convert, Edit, and Protect K. Onboarding tour L. Your subscription information
Fill and sign documents
To fill and sign PDFs, select E-sign from the top global bar. The Fill & Sign tools appear on the left, allowing you to complete form fields and sign as outlined in the following sections.
You can change Acrobat's appearance to Light or Dark theme. You can also change the setting to always follow the theme selected in Microsoft Teams. Do the following:
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In the Acrobat viewer, from the options menu (
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In the Preferences window, choose your desired theme in the Appearance drop-down list.
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Select Save. The set preference in Acrobat takes precedence over the appearance setting of Microsoft Teams.
The file must be less than 50MB in size to perform shared commenting. If the file size exceeds 50MB, then the added comments aren’t saved in the document, nor are the comments visible in the downloaded file.