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Aug 23, 2023 8:29 PM UTC
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How do I go back to the old Acrobat?

The update is terrible. Comment tools are complicated and/or missing. Nothing is where it was

How can I reinstall the last version??

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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Aug 24, 2023 4:29 AM UTC

To revert to the old interface:

  • On Macs, go to the View menu and select Disable New Acrobat.
  • On Windows, to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner (where the old File menu used to be) and select Disable New Acrobat, it's about 2/3 down the menu.

 

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Participant
Aug 29, 2024 4:00 PM UTC

 

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Participant
Sep 4, 2024 3:31 PM UTC

Can you stop completely changing the interface every year? No one is asking for this, it really affecs the workflow of the poeple that use adobe pdf daily for work.

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Participant
Aug 7, 2024 7:38 AM UTC

Such a relief ! I was not able to rotate view, find attachment or set panes. Everytime & everywhere an update comes, all things turn upside down. For senior citizens like me, it is very difficult to unlearn the old things.

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Participant
Jul 12, 2024 10:54 PM UTC

Sadly, I agree.  Confusing and difficult to maneuver.

 

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Participant
May 31, 2024 2:27 PM UTC

Agree. The update is super slow to the point where it is unpoductive. I can not zoom without getting the color wheel ever time spinning for more than a minute.  I want to install an older vesion but I don't see how to do it. Unlike photoshop and indesign where I can see older versions I don't see any opton for acrobat. please help! It is so awful. If you disable does it go back to an older version?

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Participant
Jun 5, 2024 3:20 PM UTC

The new version is so slow and laggy it's unusable for me.  Also, adding text on top of an existing PDF is a huge pain because, for some reason, you can accidentally select the existing text now when doing this.  Thank you for showing us how to revert to the old version, luckily we still have that option.

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Participant
Apr 21, 2024 12:19 AM UTC

This is just a classic "uplift" and "refresh" of a product that nobody asked for. Just how many millions did the geniuses make that suggested removing pages and other basic information from the default view?

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Participant
Apr 11, 2024 4:07 PM UTC

Yes please notify your product team that the way the new changes have been launched are terrible. The change was too extreme. I have used (and paid!) for acrobat for several years and rely on it for work and personal admin. I now have to completely retrain and it is not very intuitive. It is slowing me down and I now am hesitant to use it. You should not have allowed such an extreme release that has completely transformed the interface. The learning curve is too steap. Not only that, I just tried to fill in a form and wasn't able to do so, it was giving me issues all over the place and was a painful process. I was not able to just fill in the boxes. I have now reverted back to the old version (as others have said thank goodness that is possible) and now I can fill in the form just fine, just as I always did. So there are also feature performance issues. 

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Participant
Apr 9, 2024 4:37 PM UTC

Perhaps the worst update I've ever seen.  Why take away all the functional tools and hide them?  It has made workflow 10x slower until I found this thread.

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Participant
Mar 27, 2024 7:07 AM UTC

I have an iPad and I do not have a drop-down menu on the left. I have All Tools, But there's no option to revert back to the old version. So what do I do now?

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Participant
Mar 26, 2024 12:03 AM UTC

This is a terrible "upgrade" it's difficult to use and is a tremendous time waster.  Bring back the old.  

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Participant
Mar 21, 2024 2:50 PM UTC

Agreed... this new update is absolutely terrible. For everyone that couldn't find the 'Disable New Acrobat' under 'View' (like me), you can just search for it under the 'Help' -Search box and find it, click it, restart Acrobat ...and go back to being productive. 🙂

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