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October 11, 2020
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How do I turn off help pop-up bubbles in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

  • October 11, 2020
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Adobe's staff was not able to help with this problem, so I hope the community has an answer. While I am working in Acrobat, it will, from time-to-time, pop-up a blue help bubble with a flashing blue star. No work can be done in Acrobat until I go over to the pop-up and click 'X'. This is very interupting to the thought process, interferes with productivity and reduces work efficiency. I am hoping the community knows how to turn that function off or else pressure Adobe into creating an option to turn it off. Adobe staff seems to think I have a corrupt installation. However, it looks like a programming design not a corruption. I am including a screenshot of one of the disruptive pop-ups. I can send more pop-up examples if need be. It runs the entire gamut of the toolbar.

I thank you in advance for your advice and assistance.

解決に役立った回答 ClimateChangeVI.org

Hi! Thank you for responding. Your solution was close, but helped push me in the right direction.

 

Your suggestion afects files starred as 'Favorites', which is not the same as the blue blinking star that accompanies the blue help bubble pop-up.

 

I spent time checking/unchecking various options until the problem ceased. This is the solution.

"Edit--->>>Preferences--->>>General--->>>uncheck "Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat".

 

Searching Google for Acrobat "Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat" also finally got me to a bunch of people on different forums who were experiencing the same problem (including on Adobe forums!) The solution offered in those forums is the same as I wasted several hours figuring out. Why doesn't Adobe's help staff know this about their own product?

Laymen describe them as 'blue help pop-up bubbles' or similar. Adobe calls them 'Contextual Tips'. Thus, unless you know Adobe's jargon, their support staff cannot help you. No one could tell me that the pop-ups are called 'Contextual Tips' and no type of common sense or logic would lead me to search under that term.

I am glad I found the solution in "Preferences". Adobe's support staff wanted me to uninstall and reinstall ALL of my Adobe products. They have scheduled their 'higher tech team', as they call it, to call me during the week to work through a solution. LOL. Crazy, right? This for an option that easily turns off in preferences but simply lacks a common sense label/name to find it under.

Here is one of the Adobe Support Community's forum inquiries on the matter that is marked: Solved. https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/can-i-stop-blue-popup-quot-tips-quot-appearing/td-p/10856154?page=1

 

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Participant
January 22, 2024

Does Adobe comment in this community? Its quite frustrating as I can see many people are facing the same issue, we uncheck the box yet we still get messages and popups! Adobe please fix that? Any body know if this behavior can be turned off in the registry?

ls_rbls
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2024

Actually, they do.

 

Let me see if I can tag the correct Adobe rep  for this discussion.

Participant
January 17, 2024

Same issue here.

 

MacOS 14.1.1 and Acrobat Pro Continuous Release.

 

All "help" should be able to be turned on or off. I have turned everything off but I continue to get help messages, this time when Acrobat was 'quit,' I double-clicked PDF, Acrobat first told me how to use the Star "favorite" feature, then it gave me a "What's New" window with "Try now" and "Learn more" options.

 

I want all of these interruptions OFF.

Participant
December 7, 2023

I am having this problem also. It is incredibly annoying and disruptive. The "new" Abobe is as infuriating and difficult to use as the previous version, just in different ways.  I am using Mac with macOS Monterey.  I tried following some of the suggestions from other users by going into Edit but I couldn't see either next step - Basic Tools or Preferences, so I am still stuck with this very poor design feature. Boo Adobe. 

 

Participant
May 8, 2023

Having the same problem on Win10.  can confirm Dandreti's statement that unchecking the "Show me messages..." does not fix the issue. 
It's rather infuriating that no work can be done until this pop-up is dismissed.  Yay monoplies. 

davidl70847510
Participant
September 21, 2023

Still getting these "get started popups" upon opening every PDF!. This renders Acrobat unusable as a PDF viewer and so it is no longer my default viewer, which is pretty sad!

Participant
March 16, 2024

I cannot live with this issue any longer and I am actively seeking an alternative to Acrobat Pro DC. It's very PATHETIC that Adobe can't manage to fix this super annoying issue that makes a very expensive and necessary program essentially UNUSABLE. Nothing that Adobe does regarding its design and User Interfacing follows common logic, but this crap takes the cake. I've spent HOURS on the phone with tech support (with people I could barely understand because theri Indian accent is so thick) and still NO SOLUTION. 

Participating Frequently
August 29, 2022

I have the "Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat" check box disabled and still get these little blue helper tool-tips. They typically appear after any kind of feature introduction or update - so a pretty consistent annoyance of the application.

 

I'll get to the quick answer: There is no way to disable them across the board. You will be forced to click the small "x" on every single one of them. There is no other solution at present.

 

You'll find that these forums are filled with similar requests for how to disable Acrobat's "Tool-tips" features, people hate them because they just get in the way.

I can also let you know that there are a lot of people and threads on these forums who claim to have a solution: they don't.

 

Sorry that there isn't a better way to resolve this. Adobe don't really seem interested in making Acrobat not hot garbage.

Participant
November 18, 2022

I'm having the same issue. I have turned the check box off in the Preferences and still the blue pop-ups must be dealt with every time I open a file.

ls_rbls
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 11, 2020

I think that you should be able to get rid of this if you right-click on that toolbar --->>> select "Show File Tools" from the context menu that will pop up--->>>then  uncheck from the next context "Add Files to Starred Files"

 

You can also try and see here: Edit--->>>Preferences--->>> "Basic Tools" section --->>> uncheck "View starred files in Recent tab"

 

If none of this work maybe a registry (MS Windows)  Preference (or Plist if on macOS) needs to be disabled.

 

 

ClimateChangeVI.org作成者解決!
Inspiring
October 11, 2020

Hi! Thank you for responding. Your solution was close, but helped push me in the right direction.

 

Your suggestion afects files starred as 'Favorites', which is not the same as the blue blinking star that accompanies the blue help bubble pop-up.

 

I spent time checking/unchecking various options until the problem ceased. This is the solution.

"Edit--->>>Preferences--->>>General--->>>uncheck "Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat".

 

Searching Google for Acrobat "Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat" also finally got me to a bunch of people on different forums who were experiencing the same problem (including on Adobe forums!) The solution offered in those forums is the same as I wasted several hours figuring out. Why doesn't Adobe's help staff know this about their own product?

Laymen describe them as 'blue help pop-up bubbles' or similar. Adobe calls them 'Contextual Tips'. Thus, unless you know Adobe's jargon, their support staff cannot help you. No one could tell me that the pop-ups are called 'Contextual Tips' and no type of common sense or logic would lead me to search under that term.

I am glad I found the solution in "Preferences". Adobe's support staff wanted me to uninstall and reinstall ALL of my Adobe products. They have scheduled their 'higher tech team', as they call it, to call me during the week to work through a solution. LOL. Crazy, right? This for an option that easily turns off in preferences but simply lacks a common sense label/name to find it under.

Here is one of the Adobe Support Community's forum inquiries on the matter that is marked: Solved. https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/can-i-stop-blue-popup-quot-tips-quot-appearing/td-p/10856154?page=1

 

Participating Frequently
September 9, 2021

Thanks for this. I just had to reinstall Acrobat because of another of its quirks and those blue things started popping up all over the place. I would never have thought that 'Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat' had anything to do with it. I had already looked under preferences searhing for something like 'Display in-app tips' but couldn't see anything. And why are preferences under 'Edit' anyway?

 

Sorry - I'm having an anti-Adobe day today...