Inserting PDF causes the scroll bar to jump

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October 6, 2025
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In my line of work, we drag and drop PDF's into large documents (500+ pages). When doing so, the scroll bar will reset. Is there a way to prevent this?

For example:

I drop a PDF into page 472, the document then jumps to page 284 and I need to scroll back down to where I last was.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi, @fantastic_Giggles0245, I do not know if there's an "official way to do this, but I think I may have come up with a way to bypass the issue:

Go into the " The Window" menu and select "Split." This will turn your single-page view into a split view. Note that it shows the same page on the top and bottom halves. If you scroll the scrolling handle up or down, it does not affect the other half.

I'm pretty sure that you can insert the new material on (say) the bottom half, and the top half will stay where it was before you started. Then, once complete, you could take that central scrollbar handle, drag it to the bottom to return to non-split viewing and continue.

Please let me know what happens, and if this works, please mark this as correct so that others find it for their needs.

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fantastic_Giggles0245Author

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Gary,

We tested this an it would likely work, however, the volume of PDF's makes this less ideal due to how many are being inserted. It ends up taking more time. We do appreciate your response, do you have any other suggestions. Other users in my organization don't seem to have this issue but our settings appear to be aligned.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi, @fantastic_Giggles0245, thank you for trying it and for getting back to me.

I just started to say I did not know any way to do what you wanted to get done, but my first guess didn't work for you. BUT, I just thought of another: add bookmarks

To do this, go to the right side panel and select the Bookmarks tab. Then you can create bookmarks for the section you want to see when you click on it. Please ignore the text "why use it," and "Reports," those were text in the PDF that I was testing it with. You can rename the bookmark link to what works best for you

This will give you any number of bookmarks you can refer back to.

Again, let me know if this works.

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