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                           From Reader, you can start a meeting to share
your desktop and review PDF documents. Adobe Acrobat Connect is a personal web-conference tool that
you can access from Reader to conduct
real-time meetings on your desktop. Attendees join the meeting by
logging into a web-based meeting space from their own computers. </p>

                        <p>You
must have an Acrobat Connect account to start and attend meetings.
You can subscribe or set up a trial account by clicking the Start
Meeting button in Reader to get started. </p>

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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>To start a meeting, do one of the following:</span><ul><li>
                                 <p>Click the Start Meeting <img src="images/AR_StartMeeting_Lg_N.png"></img> button.</p>

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                                 <p>Choose File &gt; Start Meeting.</p>

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<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the dialog box that appears, do one of the following:</span><ul><li>
                                 <div class="p">If you have an account, click Log In. Type
the Meeting URL, login, and password for your Acrobat Connect account,
and then click Log In. Your Acrobat Connect account uses your Adobe
ID (your email address) for your login. <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>You can also use Meeting
URLs for Macromedia Breeze and Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro accounts.
These accounts require a login that is different than your Adobe
ID.</div>

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                                 <p>If you don’t have an account, click Create Trial
Account, and follow the on-screen directions.</p>

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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Do one of the following: </span><ul><li>
                                 <p>To invite participants to a meeting, click
Send An E-mail Invitation, type the email addresses of those you
want to invite, and then click Send.</p>

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<li>
                                 <p>To share the document that’s displayed on your screen,
click Share My Screen. </p>

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</ul>
 
                              <p>As participants join the meeting, their names appear
in the Attendee List. </p>

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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Do any of the following: </span><ul><li>
                                 <p>Type a message in the Chat pod, select
who to send the message to, and click the Send Message button.</p>

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                                 <p>Take notes in the Notes pod and send them out after
the meeting.</p>

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<li>
                                 <p>If you want another attendee to share his or her
desktop, select that person’s name in the Attendee List, click the
Set User Role button, and choose Set As Presenter. </p>

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