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Inspiring
October 6, 2023
Question

Toolbar stays customized only in first doc, uncustomized everywhere else

I'm in Acrobat Pro 2023.006.202320 on macOS (M1 chip).

 

What I did:

- Opened pdf 1

- Succesfully customized the toolbar the way I want

- Opened pdf 2

 

What I expected

The customized toolbar would appear in pdf 2 as well

 

What actually happened

1. A totally different, uncustomized toolbar is shown.

2. When I attempt to re-customize the toolbar while in pdf 2 (View > Show/Hide > Customize toolbar), bizarelly the customization dialog displays my customized toolbar. Changing and saving a customization this in the customization dialog(like moving an icon up or down, or adding another one)  doesn't change the actual toolbar in pdf 2. Here's a screenshot showing the actual toolbar, and the customization dialog displaying a totally different toolbar:

 

 

3. When I re-open pdf 1 though, the customized toolbar is displayed.

 

Tried restarting.

 

At this point, all I can think of is to uninstall/reinstall.

 

Does anyone know how I can get out of this stuck mode? FYI I've seen posts about switching to the "old UI", but I see no such option in my View menu: I'm stuck with the new UI (which looks totally different from the UIs in online help articles like this one: https://creativecloud.adobe.com/cc/learn/acrobat/web/customize-toolbar?locale=en-CA

 

Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Inspiring
October 6, 2023

Now it's suddenly working: the customized toolbar appears in pdf 2.

 

What I did to fix it makes no sense to me:

  • With all files closed, clicked on Your files under Adobe cloud storage (I had been opening files from Recent)
  • Click on pdf 2

A new menu that had never been displayed before for PDF 2 appeared on the far right, including Add Comments:

  • I clicked Add comments

 

What  happened:

PDF 2 opened, now displaying the customized toolbar.

If I close pdf 2 and open it by double-clicking, the customized toolbar continues to be displayed, whether I open it from Recent or Your files.

 

I'm mystified.

gary_sc
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 7, 2023

Hi, @Richard32767964opgc, I'm not fully sure what happened either, but when I see things like this, my first thought is to rebuild the preferences. Here's how to do that in Acrobat

 

How to reset Acrobat Preference settings to default?Adobe Support Communityhttps://community.adobe.com › Acrobat › Discussions