Tab inserts comment

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June 18, 2020
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Using Adobe Reader DC, sometimes (not always) when I press TAB, it inserts a comment instead of moving to the next field. It is extremely annoying. Does anyone know how to disable this?

General troubleshooting

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Correct answer dssmt

Disabling the 'new' Acrobat also seems to solve it. Menu->View->Disable New Acrobat. Others reported that they can switch back to 'new' after turning it off without the unwanted behavior returning but I haven't verified that.

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Jesse Luis

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Thank you so much, this solved the problem for me, it was really annoynig.

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Youngjin374986639sdn

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Go to Menu - Preference - Accessibility - Uncheck "Always display the keyboard seletion cursor"

then tab will work.

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Dani37399133icj0

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changing from pan back to select tool as suggested no longer works for me, disabliing new acrobat works but its annoying as im used to new acrobat and like it more that the old one.

i tried to Uncheck "Always display the keyboard seletion cursor" to make tab work properly but it wasnt checked so that didnt fix anything. Is there no way to use tab on New Acrobat at all...this is crazy!

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kory375735478nlx

Participating Frequently

Have a user that just recently started up with this issue. Can't revert eihter unless we look to do a full uninstall and reinstall.

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MaryMcKH

Participant

Bumping - this just started happening and it is making using forms and sending them out impossible. I don't have the "New Acrobat" option and the switching to Pan doesn't fix the probelm

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Lindsay37447085ubzy

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Bumping this as well. I had an update and this started happening after years with no issue. I just disabled the new acrobat as suggested below and it works, but of course now I have to adjust to using the old acrobat even though I've been using the new one for about a year now.

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Lindsay37447085ubzy

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Also, the changing from pan back to select tool as suggested above did not work for me.

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Dani37399133icj0

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Would love it if anyone could help on this.... it is so time wasting and annoying. pushing tab has worked fine for two years now ,all of a sudden is barely usable anymore. when filling out forms i always tab to go to the next box, now everytime i do that it puts my words into a comment so i have had to do everything by hand and it is taking far to long. Please help!

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Tristan33940629i3lr

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Hello! I had been having the same issue, but I did a quick change from Select tool to Pan tool, then back to Select tool. That seems to have solved it for now. Will report back if there is another solution.