Ability to see lots of tab at once?

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I usually need to work with a large number of PDFs, typically 5-10.

Under Acrobat DC Pro Mac's default behavior, a normal sized Acrobat window will only allow about 4 tabs to be displayed at once. This is not very useful, the option to scroll through the tabs does not help, and I am wondering if there is a way to make the window show more tabs at the same time without stretching it to cover a larger screen area?

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K C33027475dan4

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Hi, just checking to see if there’s been a solution or if any workaround is available. Thanks for your help!

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Amal Jaiswal

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Hi @K C33027475dan4

I hope you are doing well, and thanks for following up. I’m sorry you have been waiting for an update.

This discussion is about seven years old, and Acrobat has changed a lot since then. To understand your situation and see what options may work for you, could you please share the following:

Which device and operating system are you using (Windows or Mac), and which Acrobat version and plan is installed? You can check the version in Help > About Acrobat.
How many PDFs do you usually keep open at the same time, and what do you do while switching between them (for example, comparing, copying pages, or reviewing)?
What exactly do you want to see on the screen, for example, all the file names at once or all the documents side by side?
A short screen recording showing how your tabs appear when many files are open, and the steps you take to switch between them would be very helpful.

Once we have these details, we can look into it further.

Regards,
Amal

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Amal.

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Hi Morganw,

Apologies for the trouble caused, as you are experiencing issues with opening multiple tabs on mac, we tried to reproduce the issue on our end and we were easily able to open 10 documents with different tabs under one window.

For a better understanding of the issue we need some more information:

Are you running the latest version of Adobe Acrobat DC, to check go to help>About Acrobat Pro DC.
Could you please share the screenshot of your mac screen when you try to open more tabs. To know more about how to send the private message, please refer to How Do I Send Private Message

alternatively, you may try resetting the preferences:

Go to Adobe Acrobat DC>Preferences>General>select open documents as new tabs in the same window (requires relaunch).

Let us know if that makes any difference to you.

Regards,

Amal

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morganw4118444Author

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There is no problem actually opening 10 documents in one window, the issue is that because of the way the tabs display, only a few will be visible at once and I have to use the scroll arrows (< >) to see all their names, or else expand the window wider to an unhelpful degree. This is troublesome when I need to quickly move back and forth between them at random. I was hoping there was some way to shrink them or display the tabs in multiple rows so I can see all the tabs at once.

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