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August 3, 2012
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How can I make a sticky note stay open?

  • August 3, 2012
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I'm using Acrobat X Pro on a large screen under 64-bit Windows 7 to read PDF scientific journal articles.  I regularly add highlighting (with comments) and sticky notes.  I would like the sticky notes to stay open because my screen has lots of room to display them.  Although sometimes I can get sticky notes to stay open, more often than not they close.  What steps can I take to make a sticky note stay open?

Thanks for your help,

Don Macnaughton

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New Participant
July 23, 2018

None of the strategies suggested below are working for me.

minhestrone
New Participant
June 24, 2014

Double-click on the icon.

christinac27068396
New Participant
January 12, 2016

Thank you! This worked perfectly! xo

dave_m_k
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August 6, 2012

Hi Don,

They're probably closing any time you have the Comments list open.

Try choosing Edit > Preferences and unchecking the 'Hide comment pop-ups when Comments List is open' checkbox.

-David

DonMac99Author
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August 7, 2012

David Kastendick wrote:

They're probably closing any time you have the Comments list open.

That's an excellent hypothesis.  But unfortunately it's not the answer.  That's because I normally keep the Acrobat Comments List closed because my screen is wide enough that comments and sticky notes can be readily seen outside the page boundaries (even if the navigation pane is open on the left).  So its more efficient to view the comments and sticky notes just outside the page boundaries than to view them in the Comments LIst at the right edge of the screen.

Comments associated with highlighting will always stay open on my computer.  But sticky notes are very hard to get to stay open.  There seems to be some obscure combination of actions that will make a sticky note stay open.  Now each time that I add a sticky note I experiment a little until I get frustrated and give up.  The list of actions to get a sticky note to stay open seems to involve performing some of the following actions (and perhaps other actions) in a certain order (that I haven't been able to figure out):

  • add the sticky note to the document (by typing S and then clicking where the the sticky note icon is to appear)
  • type the text in the sticky note
  • F5 to move the focus from the sticky note into the document
  • Page Down to go the next page
  • Ctrl+End to go to the end of the document
  • save the document.

I'll keep working on it, but I'll greatly appreciate any suggestions that anyone may have.

Thanks again,

Don Macnaughton

DonMac99Author
New Participant
August 11, 2012

Have you tried right-clicking on a sticky note and selecting Open all pop-ups?


LoriAUC wrote:

Have you tried right-clicking on a sticky note and selecting Open all pop-ups?

Thank you.  That's an excellent suggestion, but unfortunately it leads to "disaster".  If there is any Acrobat highlighting in the document, then each highlighted section of text has a pop-up associated with it.  Open All Pop-Ups causes all these pop-ups to open.  In my documents I often have lots of Acrobat highlighting, but most of the highlighted text doesn't don't have an associated comment in the associated pop-up.  So if I select Open All Pop-Ups, I have to close all the blank ones (or they cover other non-blank pop-ups), which is time-consuming.

I'm continuing to experiment to try to find a reliable sequence of keystrokes to make a sticky note pop-up stay open.  (I have no trouble getting pop-ups associated with highlighted text to stay open.)  But I haven't yet found a sequence that's quick and reliable.

Don Macnaughton