Viewing Long PDFs - macOS Preview

[helvella]

Many of us are familiar with PDF documents. But, I suspect, mostly shorter ones, one or a few pages. You can just scroll up and down to find what you want.

Trouble is, when the document has hundreds of pages, scrolling up and down doesn't help much!

If the document's author has taken the effort, you might find that there are tools to help navigation. In this example, a Table of Contents.

This first picture is a page of a document, and a menu showing various options such as Table of Contents.

Many PDF viewers have similar facilities but they are not always so easy to find or use – especially if you are using a mobile phone.

You have to fully download the document for the Table of Contents to be usable. Just viewing in a web browser is not sufficient.

See also:

Viewing Long PDFs - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

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[helvella Administrator]

If you click on Table of Contents, a sidebar appears with the entire table in it.

You can click on any entry, you can scroll up and down. That makes it easy to navigate the document.

Screenshot of PDF showing Table of Contents.

[helvella Administrator]

Hopefully you can see > and ∨ symbols. If you click on > it should change to ∨ and open up the next layer of the list. This allows you to jump straight to an even smaller part of the document. If you click it again, it should close up.

Screenshot of Table of Contents showing > sign.

[LindaC]

Thank you. helvella - as always, much appreciated.