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Making Hand Tool the Default Choice

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May 28, 2018
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In Adobe Acrobat Professional, after I select the Selection Tool and close the document, the next document which I open has the Selection Tool selected. (The program remembers the last choice.) What needs to be changed in the settings so that documents may always open with the Hand (Pan) tool selected?

Correct answer abdulhakim_2436

This didn't work for me. Instead, this worked (copied from another post): Changing Touch Mode from AUTO-DETECT to ALWAYS seems to have worked for me. Now all files are opening with hand tool already selected.

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This didn't work for me. Instead, this worked (copied from another post): Changing Touch Mode from AUTO-DETECT to ALWAYS seems to have worked for me. Now all files are opening with hand tool already selected.

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Phil34988495xu0d

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Yes! This finally works!

33delaware

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Acrobat is the worst software. It behaves exactly like Microsoft, which is an inferior tool.

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David35688868i4yn

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I just tried what noemirPS recommended and it works. Nothing else that I tried or what was recommended di - exist this one. Thanks noemirPS

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Jonathan33662419sr8k

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After dealing with this issue for far too long, in the end as always it was obvious and for some reason it is not the top answer on any of the discussions I found surrounding the topic of the defaulting hand tool.

Simply go to edit, then preferences and in general you may notice that touch mode is set on always or auto-detect. Change it to prompt on launch or never. Done.

This happened in my case because I had to delete and download Adobe again, and if you have a touch screen computer it will assume you want to get handsy so it will default to the hand. Switch it to prompt on launch or never and you'll get the select tool back regardless of whatever is going on in accessibility or the boxes for adjusting how the hand tool works.

smsaq4u

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Run regedit

Browse to > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\Selection
Set aDefaultSelect=Hand (instead of Select)

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Jennifer30680659gqbu

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@noemirPS you are my hero. This has been driving me bananas since the new update.

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Roger26312052nfhf

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The only solution that worked for me was to:

1. Open Acrobat

2. Open random pdf document

3. Select "comment" tool

4. When in 'comment mode' left-click document and select Hand tool.

5. Close and reopen Acrobat

6. Hand tool should now be set as default.

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donald_7193

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Thanks Roger. I had several different navigation tools disappear from my toolbar, which I keep on top and always open. I went to Comment tool as you said and found the missing tools at the bottom. There is what looks like a horizontal ruler with 5 dots in it, this "moves page control into toolbar." That moved them all into the toolbar as I previously had. There is the same ruler to move them out of the toolbar, I must have accidently hit that at some point. Problem solved!

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Jeffrey27829254ela7

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@noemirPS AWESOME!!! Thank you so MUCH! It really was opposite of everything online.