Want to Sort Bookmarks in Acrobat March Update Numerically & Alpha Adobe Pro 2023 March Update

Hi there,

As it happens I have been helping my own doctor deliver four years of medical PDFs in a single file, documenting her treatment after a car crash. By combining multiple PDFs into a 598 page PDF in my Acrobat Pro, I have just manually dragged the 400 odd bookmarks created into date order based on her mutiple filenaming conventions... because that is the format demanded by the authorities here in France.

The fact that there is seemingly no functionality in Acrobat Pro for reordering a document's numbered pages based on its bookmarks... blew me away. Third parties seem to offer paid scripted PC solutions? You fine guys invented this format, why not keep it rocking for us paid up Adobe subscribers? I suspect zCatLady is right :).

Thanks for any wisdom,

Bill.

There's no built-in command in Acrobat to do that, and the bookmarks are not a database, but a tree of so-called "Outline Items".

It can be done using a script, though, like this (paid-for) tool I've developed: https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-sort-bookmarks

It will also allow you to sort the bookmarks based on multiple criteria, including dates, if they all have the same pattern. Note, though, that sorting the bookmarks does NOT sort the pages they point to. That requires a different kind of tool.

Hi @zCatLady 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

Once you create the bookmark, you can click and drag it in the panel to rearrange the order or nest bookmarks under others to create an outline of your document. Don’t forget to rename your bookmark so that you can track your various tabs.

For more information, please go through the help pages listed below:

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/learn-to-add-bookmarks-to-a-pdf.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/page-thumbnails-bookmarks-pdfs.html

~Amal