Acrobat 2023: How to revert to classic GUI user interface

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

ADOBE: Do not delete or merge this conversation thread.

This post is to consolidate the information from dozens of other posts about how to revert to the previous user interface in Acrobat.

It consolidates the information users need to know.

When Acrobat is updated to version 2023, it replaces the traditional user interface that's been in place for the past 20+ years with what Adobe is calling the "Modern Viewer," which has some severe technical problems (missing utilities) and a complete relocation of familiar tools, menus, and quick access tool bars.

In Windows Acrobat:

1. Locate the "hamburger menu" in the upper left corner (3 horizontal bars where the old "File" menu used to be).
2. Select Disable New Acrobat.
   
   

The hamburger menu in new Acrobat-Windows.

In Mac Acrobat:

1. From the View menu at the top, select Disable New Acrobat.

Thanks to Gary_SC for this Mac screen capture.

Let Adobe know:

You can voice your opinion about the new interface at UserVoice: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t... 

Be sure to leave a comment about your opinion and experience with the new interface. They need to hear from us users.

FYI, UserVoice is Adobe's official website where it reads and takes into account suggestions and complaints from users of its various products.  On the other hand, this community forum is a user-to-user help forum and information posted here rarely reaches ears or eyes at Adobe.

Learn about the new interface:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html

Hope this post helps you quickly get back to work!

[Benhut1]

Oops. It looks like it went on the last page. I didn't realize this conversation spanned multiple pages, so I thought my comment had been automatically deleted for some reason.

[rene_3287]

Don't like it... 

I like the old Windows layout of having toolbars on top. And I like the window bar (the standard bar that begins with File Edit and so on... to be defaulted to the very top. Side bar stuff should be program specific... and as long as they hide/retract. I don't care what changes you do to those. But the basic Windows 7/10 stuff should just be standard.  Tool bars need to be left alone. Espcially, the  Pan/Zoom stuff and open file stuff. Moving the pan and zoom to the lower right, is espcially dumb. At the very least, just allow us full control of where the menus go.

[margaret_2026]

Thank you so much!  This was fantastically helpful.
For the Adobe person assigned to read comments, perhaps there's a solution in the new adobe for what I want to do, but I haven't found it yet.
I need to have Person A sign a form on behalf of Person B.  If I send it to Person A in New Adobe, they have to sign it as themselves.  If I send it to A and B, I still have the same problem and I annoy Person B, who is very busy and doesn't want to sign forms. 
In Old Adobe, I can just have a plain signature box that Person A can put Person B's signature in, but I haven't found a way to do that in New Adobe.
Long Live Old Adobe!

[S. S]

Hi @margaret_2026,

@margaret_2026

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

From the description, I figured out that you are trying to use the delegate feature in Acrobat Sign.

If this is to be done on a document level, you can refer to this: https://adobe.ly/3SoULL5.

If you want to use Auto-delegation, or you, as a sender, want to add delegation at the sending process, you can refer to this self-help video to learn more: https://adobe.ly/43Nhoz7.

I have added the time stamp for ease of access.

Let us know if this helps.

Regards,

Souvik