Want to stop Reader from the full screen view of PDFs

Hi, Akanchha,

I'll describe this as best I can, and please see image below.

This is a PDF of a Word doc I just created

• I click on the pdf to open it in Reader.
• The entire screen is covered in a red background with an icon that resembles an open book with pages being turned in the middle.
• The image of the PDF file contents is in the middle of the screen surrounded by a black background.
• When I hover at the top, there is a "quit" X in the upper right corner - no other resizing options, and certainly no "middle" choice.
• I cannot "pull" the image down such that it becomes a free-standing "document" that can be moved around the desktop, as would any MS Office file.
• The icon from the first, red screen is now minimized in the upper left hand corner and enables:

          1. Split Right

          2. Split Left

          3. Maximize

          4. Close

There is no way to access another open doc and place it side by side with the open PDF that I can see.

PLEASE tell me there is some setting to fix this.  I had to open a PDF earlier in Word just to get a document that could sit side-by-side a spreadsheet so I could copy content from one to the other.

THANKS!

Gia