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How do I disable tool tips in Acrobat DC Pro?

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
December 21, 2020
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How do I turn off the blue pop-up tool tips in Acrobat DC Pro (Mac version)?

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Diamond M3

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David33870772bji1

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Victory. I got rid of them by terminating my subscription and switching to UPDF. I posted the original inquiry 38 months ago. No fix in any update since then. Bye Adobe.

Bev A.

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Thanks for this! It seems to be the first helpful thing here! Gonna try this.

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314767662wop

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Preferences > Accessibility > Other Accessibility Options:

uncheck "Enable assistive technology support" seems to do the trick for me.

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defaultult3gbcdn0g4

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THANK YOU!

maxwithdax

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I found a very long and older thread about this same issue DCwinton. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the solution below or any others in the other thread helped. People are quite upset that there seems to be no reliable way to disable these if they start popping up for you.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/can-i-stop-blue-popup-quot-tips-quot-appearing/td-p/10856154/page/2

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Alex25723755cz48

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Press 'CTRL + K' for preferences
Go to the 'General' tab
Scroll to the bottom and find the 'Messages to/mrom Adobe' secition.
Uncheck the 'Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat' box.

Hope this helps!

~Alex

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Sascha5FD7

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Similar issue as posted by dcwinton. Alex' solution worked for me.

Bev A.

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Did anyone ever ansswer this? I've got the same issue, unnecessary tool tips that pop up. Looked in preferences, looked under "tools" tab... not sure where this is located, but it's damned annoying

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LarryK_95

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Not that I can tell, I still get them constantly every day. There is apparently a registry edit you can do to disable them but I'm not going to go that far.

Dave__M

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Are you referring to form fields? Tools on toolbars?

My best,

Dave

Bernd Alheit

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Can you post a screenshot of the issue?

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dcwintonAuthor

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Here are 3 that popped up in a >1 minute review of a pretty generic 1 page document. I have no clue what these things are called in Adobeland, but where I come from they're known as irritating nags. Tool tips, pop-ups, notifications...? No clue. But I would like to stop them all p[ermanently. They would be incessant in a >100 page plus document which is what I usually use Acrobat for.

(And in a humorous but predictable irony, I had to redact info from these in Acrobat, and then save them as jpg files because...You can't post .pdf files on the Adobe Acrobat forum.)