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