Acrobat DC How to hide horizontal toolbars using Ctrl-H without going into full screen mode

[Hannah25390384w1lc]

I got a new computer and had to switch to the most recent version of Acrobat from a version that's about five years old.  I want to be able to have a pdf, showing a full page view, taking up around a third of my laptop screen so I can put it side by side with other pdfs or with a window showing a word processing application so I can take notes.  I could do that in the old version with ctrl+H, which got rid of the horizontal bar at the top with "Home, Tools" and the tab with the filename.  But now ctrl+H makes the pdf fill the whole screen, which is useless.  Is this a bug or is it just a really terrible design decision?  With the extra horizontal bar taking up the space, I can no longer comfortably read a whole page at a time on my laptop screen.

[barbara_a]

Try toggling with F8 key.

[maxwithdax]

F9 and F8 will hide all the toolbars at the top and give you the maximum vertical space for viewing the PDF.

[Hannah25390384w1lc]

Thank you Barbara and Maxwithdax!  I did know about F9 and F8, but they weren't getting rid of the bar that says Home, Tools.  However, I then realized that the problem was that I was using tabbed browsing.  I turned that off, and now that bar disappears with F8.  Problem solved! I really appreciate the help.