Manage your files



Upload files

 Click Upload at the top of the organizer window. Select one or more files from your computer to upload.

At the lower right of the organizer window, the status/progress indicator shows how much storage space you have left on Acrobat.com. It also shows whether you are connected to the Internet and tracks progress when you're uploading, sharing, or converting a file to PDF.

Progress of the upload

For more information, see What file types can I upload and share?.

Sort and filter files

The organizer is your home base in Acrobat.com. It shows files that you've uploaded to the web, and files that other Acrobat.com users have uploaded and shared with you. From the organizer, you can browse file contents, share a file, or convert a file to Adobe PDF. You can also access other Acrobat.com services, such as Adobe Buzzword and Adobe ConnectNow.

You can view your files in List view or Thumbnail view. Click a View icon in the toolbar to switch views. In either view, use the Sort icons in the toolbar to change how your files are grouped in the organizer: alphabetically, by author, by date added or modified, by file type, by size (in megabytes), or by share status. Move the pointer over a Sort icon to identify it:

Sorting files using the Sort icons

Whatever sort method you choose, you can filter the files that appear to quickly access a particular set of files and temporarily hide the rest. To add a filter, click a heading in your current sort view. For example, when sorting by file size, click a size heading, such as Less Than 1 MB, to view just those files in the organizer.

Applying the File Size filter

After applying a filter, you can sort the remaining files by any other sorting method. You can also apply additional filters to further sort the files you are currently displaying. For example, after displaying just files of less than 1 MB, you can sort the remaining files by file type. Then click a file type heading, such as Text File, to see just text files. The filters you've applied—in this case, File Size and File Type—appear as tiles above the currently displayed files. Click the arrow next to a filter tile to see a menu of other choices for that filter. For example, if you're filtering file types to show just text files, you can change the filter to show just Microsoft® Word documents.

Applying the File Type filter

Click the X on a filter tile to remove the filter. You can remove filters in any order. Whatever filters you have left are then in effect. For example, suppose you filter files less than 1 MB and text files, and remove the File Size filter. In this case, all text files appear, not just text files of less than 1 MB. Remove all filters to return to viewing all files.

Preview files

  • To browse file contents, click the filename to open the previewer. In the previewer, you can page through documents such as Microsoft Office files, OpenOffice files, PDF files, and images.

  • For other file commands, click a document icon to reveal a menu button , then click it to open the file context menu:

    Options available in the file context menu

Access other services

Clicking the icons in the upper right of the organizer takes you to the other Acrobat.com services: Adobe Buzzword, an online word processor, and Adobe ConnectNow, a web conferencing program.

  • Click New to open a new, blank Buzzword document.

  • Click Buzzword Docs in the toolbar to open the Buzzword Document Organizer.

  • Click Meet to go to a ConnectNow meeting room.