Adobe Split Window!

Happy Tuesday!

I re-discovered something really useful about Adobe yesterday. If you are looking at one PDF file and are finding yourself flipping back and forth between different parts of the file over and over (e.g. if you are comparing contents from one page to the contents of another page), there is a very useful feature that allows you to see two parts of the same document at the same time.

Just click and drag down this little bar on the top right of your document, and it will split the screen!

In this example. I’m looking at the US Government’s 2014 Financial Statements, and want to read the notes to the financial statements that relate to the specific liabilities line item of Federal debt securities held by the public and accrued interest (Note 12).

Once you’ve split the screens, you can independently zoom in and out, and scroll up and down in each of the two parts of the window.

And now here’s how it looks dragged down. Note I have zoomed in on the top part, and zoomed down and scrolled to the Notes in the bottom part.

If you want to scroll up or down in either section, simply hover your mouse over that part of the window and use the mouse scroll wheel. No need to click on it first.

Enjoy!