Set Hand Tool as default?

I am also facing same issue when download pics even anything from combo smoker grill site but now its working fine.

I found a fix and it is most bizarre. It potentially is linked to other solutions here as I did not undo the changes made by them.

What I found is when you right click a document, you can change the selection type here BUT there are two versions of the right click menu. in a normal document, there is a small ribbon above with pictures of the tools. Selecting hand tool here, closing and re-opening the document will NOT have the hand tool stick. I happened to have a document open that had comments made by a different user and the right click menu is different for some reason, it has no ribbon above with pictures, but text to select from. If I choose the hand tool here, then right close and re-open, the hand tool is now default.

I need to necro this unfortunately. A very recent update to Reader has nullified these methods both on my work and personal computers. Anyone else have a solution?

I have the same issue with Adobe Acrobat Pro.

This worked with me:

1. Close all apps and documents

2. Open a PDF using Adobe Acrobat ... in principle, the Select tool is active by default right?

3. Just right click somewhere in the middle of the page and select the Hand tool (do not use the toolbars)

4. Close Adobe Acrobat

Now try to open a PDF using Adobe Acrobat again and in principle the Hand tool should be active by default.

This was driving me crazy!  I finally discovered that when in "Preferences" I was not seeing the entire window.  I had to awkwardly move the window and scroll to the bottom to get to the "OK" button after making changes.  In the end, Preference/General then set "Touch Mode" to Always, then get to the bottom of the window and select OK.  Then the hand tool is default when opening documents....Hope this helps. 

Better late than never. I found this option to work:

Look under Preferences – Accessibility and uncheck “Always display the keyboard selection cursor”. Then select the Hand Tool. Then close the program. So far the pan (hand) tool remains the default.

Cheers

(Running Adobe Acrobat X on Win 10)

I tried all these suggestions to no avail.  I did try something else that worked.  Go to Edit/Preferences/General and check "Make hand tool select text & images".  This defaults to the Hand tool which changes to the Select tool temporarily when you mouse over text or images.  As long as the cursor isn't over text, you're using the hand tool and can use arrow keys to change pages.

To set Adobe Reader X to open with the hand tool active what I did was:

Open Adobe Reader X

Right Click on the toolbar

Mouse Down to "Select and Zoom"

Click on the Hand Tool

The Hand Tool appears on the Tool Bar

Click on the Hand Tool

Close Adobe Reader X

The next time you open the Reader the Hand Tool is selected.

The Reader seems to open with whatever tool that was selected when it was last closed.

It's a pitty that the Installer does not check what tool the previous version used beore it replaces it

Hope this helps.

Dave

I also would like to know this answer? Thanks