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1234567890_ABC
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April 18, 2019
Question

Eliminate Home Screen when closing last PDF?

  • April 18, 2019
  • 19 replies
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I'm new to Acrobat DC and am used to working with individual PDFs. I've got DC setup to NOT do tabbed management of multiple open files. How do I now stop it from reverting to a "Home Screen" showing recent files when I close the last open PDF?   I think, that when I close the last open PDF, Acrobat should just go away/die.

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    davideverywherebrand
    Participating Frequently
    July 11, 2022

    This doesn't work for me - any ideas? I still get the anoying home screen application window blocking everythign else from view - is like someone deliberatly getting infront of you view while you're trying to watch tv - seroiusly frustrating why it's default!

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      saturnsf
      Participant
      June 10, 2022

      I hate this feature with a white hot passion. As others have noticed (and others have disagreed with), checking the "hide home screen" option does not hide the home screen at all. Never. This is constantly in my way, and is one of the worst "updates" I've ever seen. At this point, it's clear Adobe won't respond to the many requests to get rid of this (and what's with that ineffective checkbox?)

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        davideverywherebrand
        Participating Frequently
        July 11, 2022

        Any solutions - I'm staggered by there's no obvoius help or reaction from something so obvoiusly frustating. I'M MOVING TO FIGMA from now on. Stcik that in your pipes Adobe - you didn;t learn QUARKS lesson did you? 

          photoretouchpro
          photoretouchpro
          Inspiring
          November 11, 2020

          This is terrible. Please disable this like you can on all other CC software.

            ryan.thorpe
            ryan.thorpe
            Participant
            September 27, 2020

            It's super annoying... I can't get rid of it either!!! I would love to... it's rubbish and I never use it! Adobe? Are you listenting?!!

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              ToddPrepress100
              Participating Frequently
              June 3, 2019

              Maybe this screen shot will help.

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                Matthew Graham
                Participant
                October 23, 2019

                The Home Screen is a real time-wasting annoyance in my studio. We already have an operating system from Apple for finding and managing files, and we all have  learned to use it. Placing an "OS-Lite" in the way of tasks we need to complete is the opposite of good UX design. We need achieve MORE WITH LESS, not the same with more. Please Adobe... read this, and the many threads on this topic... and make the universally hated Home Screen switch off-able.

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                  ToddPrepress100
                  Participating Frequently
                  November 19, 2019

                  I agree that we do not need an additional OS-Lite on top of the MacOS. I especially despise the Home screen because I work in Prepress and continually have to open PDFs to edit them and then save them. I am forced to use the AdobeOS Lite to navigate to where I want to save the file. Very annoying Adobe! Give us the option to turn off!

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                    mulin_whu
                    Participant
                    May 31, 2019

                    Why does the app open randomly?

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                    ToddPrepress100
                    Participating Frequently
                    May 31, 2019

                    I think 1234567890!ABC simply wants to know how to disable the "Recent" or "Home" screen (not sure what Adobe calls it?) I find it constantly in my way also. When you close an open PDF it  automatically opens (even if you have previously closed it) and blocks my view of the desktop. I have yet to use any of the "Features" of this screen. Please give us a way to disable this "Feature".

                      Bernd Alheit
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                      Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
                      Community Expert
                      May 31, 2019

                      MS Windows or MacOS?

                      try67
                      Community Expert
                      try67Community Expert
                      Community Expert
                      May 31, 2019

                      I'm assuming Mac OS, as that doesn't happen on Windows.

                        jane-e
                        Community Expert
                        jane-eCommunity Expert
                        Community Expert
                        April 19, 2019

                        Hi

                        If you Quit Acrobat with documents open, then both the application and the documents will close. You will be asked whether or not to save unsaved files. It works this way in most computer applications, not just Acrobat.

                        ~ Jane

                          try67
                          Community Expert
                          try67Community Expert
                          Community Expert
                          April 19, 2019

                          That's not possible. If you want to close the application you have to do so yourself. It will not close automatically when you close the last open file.

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