Tagged bookmarks

Tagged bookmarks give you greater control over page content than do regular bookmarks. Because tagged bookmarks use the underlying structural information of the document elements (for example, heading levels, paragraphs, table titles), you can use them to edit the document, such as rearranging their corresponding pages in the PDF, or deleting pages. If you move or delete a parent tagged bookmark, its children tagged bookmarks are moved or deleted along with it.

Many desktop publishing applications, such as Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word, create structured documents. When you convert these documents to PDF, the structure is converted to tags, which support the addition of tagged bookmarks. Converted Web pages typically include tagged bookmarks.

If your document doesn’t include tags, you can always add them in Acrobat.

1. Click the Bookmarks button, and choose New Bookmarks From Structure from the Options menu. (If this option isn’t available, the document isn’t structured.)
2. Select the structure elements you want specified as tagged bookmarks. Ctrl-click/Command-click to add to the selection.

   The tagged bookmarks are nested under a new, untitled bookmark.