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June 22, 2022
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ESC key and acrobat comments

  • June 22, 2022
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If I write a comment and press the ESC key, acrobat closes the comment window without saving the comment. Do anybody know, how I could change the behavior of acrobat?

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Correct answer Galil TW LTD - U3

They changed it so now you need to press ALT + ENTER

 

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Participating Frequently
December 17, 2023

I have finally cracked up a solution. First of all uninstall Acrobat from Creative Cloud. Then head to this link from Adobe:

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/acrobat-2020-downloads.html

and download the 2020 version. Install this one and sign in with your subscription credentials! Et voila! The old beloved ESC function and a speedy pdf editor is back in the game! I hope this helps everyone!

Participating Frequently
February 25, 2023
Meenakshi Negi
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 11, 2022

Hi All,

 

Thank you for being so patient. 

 

The behavior of Esc would be to discard any draft content typed in the comment box. To post the comment, either the Post button be clicked, or Alt+Enter be pressed. Further, a mouse click on the document will also post the comment. So, apart from the Esc key, all other ways to post the comment are retained.

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi

Participating Frequently
February 25, 2023

This is absolutely counter-productive and time inefficient if you work all day with correcting manuscripts, which sadly has to be done through Acrobat. People are on the edge about the loss of a decades-now functionality and you can at least offer the OPTION through the preferences to save our time, instead of just charging monthly heavily costed plans. 

Participant
July 5, 2022

Thanks for the answers, everyone, but Alt + Enter doesn't seem to fully replace Esc.

 

Esc fully closed the pop-up box including minimizing it, but Alt + Enter only closes the text entry part of the pop-up box without minimizing it. Is there any keystroke that will fully close and minimize the pop-up box?

Participant
July 6, 2022

I am likewise appreciating these answers and discussions.  My main problem now, even though I know to press alt-enter, is that I've been pretting ESC for years to save comments.  I find myself frustratingly using the old mechanism from time to time, so I need to enter the comment twice.  I suppose I will eventually learn through negative reinforcement, but find myself wishing that there was a way to *disable* the ESC to discard mechanism.

Galil TW LTD - U3Correct answer
Participant
July 4, 2022

They changed it so now you need to press ALT + ENTER

 

Community Expert
July 5, 2022

Thank you very much! I was confused, as I also have a new laptop and tried to find out whether there is an option which I have to use to change this behaviour. Good that I found your post here!

JR Boulay
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 23, 2022

You're right, ENTER should not act as RETURN.

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JR Boulay
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 22, 2022

ESC often means "Cancel", you should use TAB or ENTER instead.

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try67
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Community Expert
June 22, 2022

And just to clarify, you can't change how it works.