How do you ALWAYS SHOW the thumbnails pane by default in Acrobat DC?

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March 7, 2016
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I have looked through all the settings and searched here and on Google – maybe I missed it, but I don't see the option ANYWHERE.

Acrobat DC refuses to persist my decision to open the thumbnails pane after I have closed the program and opened another file.

This is HORRIBLY annoying because I have to delete pages from almost every document I open in Acrobat DC (nature of my job and use case), and since.... "upgrading....." *cough* .... from Acrobat XI, I now have to "unhide" the left sidebar (I didn't ever have to do this in Acrobat XI), AND THEN tell it to show the thumbnails. This is a HUGE waste of time working with multiple files that have to be edited thus.

I have the latest version: 2015.010.20056 on Windows 7.

Correct answer Ayush__Jain

Hi All,

Acrobat & Reader January updates for DC Continuous (Build # 2015.023.20053), DC Classic (Build # 2015.006.30279) and 11.0.19 are now live.

In this Update we support keeping any Navigation pane pinned, i.e. to open by default for all the documents in the LHP.

This is how you can try this out:

1) Launch any PDF and Expand the Panel that you want the acrobat to open by default for every document(For Ex. Page Thumbnails)

2) Right click on the LHP Navigation strip , Select the option from the context menu "Pin Page thumbnails" .

3) now try out by launching any other pdf -> You will observe that the Page thumbnails panel would appear expanded by default on launch(If document does not have any other document specific preference )

Refer here for more info on this What's new in Adobe Acrobat DC -> "Retain the last LHP state across Acrobat launches"

Let me know for any other Ask in this.

Thanks

Ayush Jain

Acrobat Team

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David.G.P

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Just dump the ridiculous piece of crap that Adobe Acrobat has become and use the marvellous PDF-XChange Editor.

vb64589654

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The BEST ANSWER I have seen so far is at how can I keep tool pane and thumbnails open as a default?‌ .

That response advises using

(1) F4 to get the "Page Thumbnails Pane" open or closed. After you have pressed F4 to open the Page Thumbnails Pane,

(2) ALSO click EDIT, PREFERENCES, DOCUMENTS and CHECK the box beside "Restore last view settings when reopening documents". Click OK / Apply to save the check box change.

(3) Then be sure you SAVE the current file you have F4'ed your preferred view.

In my case, I ALWAYS need Page Thumbnails open for the files I update. I hope this helps you as much as it did me.

dmancini_mcAuthor

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I have actually done that already; it only applies to the current document. If I open another document that has not been opened before by DC, the Thumbnail pane does not open. It only opens for documents that I have already opened it inside of.