How to edit the toolbar??

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Just downloaded the new acrobat pro and the toolbar is practically non-existent. On the top toolbar, I see "edit" "convert" "sign" and "more", but that's it. On older versions of acrobat, I saw a plethora of other things, such as email, print, scaling page, buttons for naviating the document up/down a page, etc.. Where are all of these easy to access commands. This is ridiculous. I DO see some of these on a side bar, but how can I modify the top bar to include these features? Thanks for any help!

Document Geek · Accepted Answer

Based on the fact there there is no right+click contextual menu at the top toolbar, there doesn't appear to be a way to be a way to modify it as there was in previous versions. Since this is the first major update to Acrobat in about a decade (just speaking in terms of user interface), I'd like to think that that more functionality (as far as customizing the toolsets) will be added in the future. But who knows? I could be wrong.

This reorganization of Acrobat appears to finally be addressing a lot of the complaints that Acrobat users were complaining about back when Acrobat DC was initially introduced. I was a very slow adopter of Acrobat DC and wrote about that here. If you like the old version of Acrobat, I'd reccomend to just keeping using it for as long as it is able to be supported on your machine. There are still a number of functions that I need to do that Acrobat just can't do, so for that reason, I always keep more multiple PDF editing/commenting programs open and running all day long.

ChrisLeicester · Answer

I'm having exactly the same problem, and the response given as the "correct answer" seems to be "you can't do it any more". This is unbelievable - so Adobe has removed the ability to search, navigate, and view PDF documents?? I'm paying for Creative Cloud, and it just seems incredible that the "new" version of Acrobat does not allow you to do any basic functions at all. The official response here is "This reorganization of Acrobat appears to finally be addressing a lot of the complaints that Acrobat users were complaining about" - no, you don't address complaints by removing the ability to do what people are asking for!

This is the toolbar that I used to have, to be able to zoom in and out, and view whole page. Now all I can do is "Edit", "Convert" and "Sign" a PDF document, but not view it other than at page level.

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