Adobe Acrobat Pro layout is different

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Hi there

Thanks in advance for any support.

I had Adobe Acrobat Pro installed on my old work laptop last year, and it looked like the first attached image, called old version. It looks more like your traditional installed program with the menu bar.

My IT department* just installed Adobe Acrobat Pro on my new laptop, and it looks like this, see image attached called new version. This gives more of an online vibe which I'm not keen on, and no menu bar. 

Is this how it should be? Did Adobe redesign it? I preferred the old version. Maybe people familiar with the 'new version' can tell me if this is a good thing and I just need to get used to this drastic new layout. Am I missing any features from the old version?

Many thanks in advance for any help that can be affored to me.

Thank you.

Paul

*I'm asking this forum because I don't think my IT department knows much about Adobe Acrobat, only how to install the programme so they won't be able to answer my query.

[Dianne at Allegra]

Icebox, reading this just made my Monday morning!! Thanks for telling it like it is.

[I.J.32352930n5f5]

All said and done, have seen everyone icluding ADOBE, Microsoft, Facebook etc making changes to their platform without realising the difficulty it creates for the end users who have to spend extra time in searching for a particular thing. If you have to do something worthwhile, make the system better without changing the layout. It seems you are lost in the same address.

TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. 

[anguyen_vc]

I am a savage Adobe user and see no point of paying so much and getting back so little plus my time and headache to learn a new layout with meanlessness function when your old version allow you to modify, cut and paste in less than a minute. With the new layout, took me hours to cut and paste and can't even allow me to adjust the text font. I am loosen my patience with you....Adobe!

[Joseph32833419gmlu]

Please no more updates.  It's not broken, don't fix it.

[Deominic33270049pfjb]

Adobe - this change is noticeably different and looks nothing like my other programs.  First off, the save button is on the right.  Which other program has a save button on the right - None! Then the menu's don't pop to the side so that everything is flush left or right.  This means, I have flushed info and then a box that sits there and doesn't actually hide.  Next, the toolbars that used to be easy to find are small and spread out.  What was the point?  I previously changed mine back to the old version, but for some reason now, it's forced the new version back.  Next time check first because this update is...nvm.

[JR Boulay]

About Acrobat's brutal updates:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/crazy-and-brutal-update-bis/m-p/14248473

[Paul26530177979u]

Adobe, this beyond pisses me off!!!!

I have been using Adobe for years and just when I get used to a format you change!!! Why???? what the F_ck is wrong with the other one? Why cant I be given the opportunity to stay with the previous layout? I pay Adobe faithfully every month and now I have to take My VALUABLE TIME to learn another layout!!!

Why, just why?!!

[Bob34361592844t]

Do like all the rest of us.....revert by going to Menu\ Disable New  Acrobat......and pray they don't force the new illogical UI on us in the future 🙂

[JULIA3485935390p7]

You sir, are my hero!

[JamesEly3]

I totally agree with the original post.  The layout of the new interface is horrible and confusing.  There was nothing wrong with the prior version.

[readingc88615242]

Way too much has been done here, counter intutive. Cannot find my extensis pro plugins which I use all the time, so reverted to the old and better UI.

[Mike Witherell]

Does anyone have a link to a webpage that illustrates the changes between old and new? Like: it used to be here; now you will look for it here?

For example: where did the text attributes side pane go? I want to edit text!

UPDATE: OK, recent updates to the helpx files now show new interface explanations. This was not the case even late last year. For example:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/edit-text-pdfs.html

... explains the new interface when you want to edit text.

[Andy32135617u8w4]

No guides or cross-reference that I could ever find. This is one of the
worst change implementations I've ever seen. I sincerely hope Adobe
abandons it and simply retains the old interface.