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How do I go back to the old Acrobat?

New Here ,
Aug 23, 2023 Aug 23, 2023

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The update is terrible. Comment tools are complicated and/or missing. Nothing is where it was

How can I reinstall the last version??

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Community Expert , Aug 23, 2023 Aug 23, 2023

To revert to the old interface:

  • On Macs, go to the View menu and select Disable New Acrobat.
  • On Windows, to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner (where the old File menu used to be) and select Disable New Acrobat, it's about 2/3 down the menu.

 

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Adobe Employee , Sep 05, 2023 Sep 05, 2023

Hi All!

 

Hope you are doing well.


We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change; however, we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you can be more productive and get more out of Acrobat.

 

We are actively working on any unavailable features, such as customizing the All Tools positioning or user interface. And we will address them with the highest priority. 

 

A point to note is that as we made these changes in the interface, we have ensured all tools & features

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New Here ,
Apr 11, 2024 Apr 11, 2024

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Yes please notify your product team that the way the new changes have been launched are terrible. The change was too extreme. I have used (and paid!) for acrobat for several years and rely on it for work and personal admin. I now have to completely retrain and it is not very intuitive. It is slowing me down and I now am hesitant to use it. You should not have allowed such an extreme release that has completely transformed the interface. The learning curve is too steap. Not only that, I just tried to fill in a form and wasn't able to do so, it was giving me issues all over the place and was a painful process. I was not able to just fill in the boxes. I have now reverted back to the old version (as others have said thank goodness that is possible) and now I can fill in the form just fine, just as I always did. So there are also feature performance issues. 

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New Here ,
Apr 20, 2024 Apr 20, 2024

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This is just a classic "uplift" and "refresh" of a product that nobody asked for. Just how many millions did the geniuses make that suggested removing pages and other basic information from the default view?

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New Here ,
May 31, 2024 May 31, 2024

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Agree. The update is super slow to the point where it is unpoductive. I can not zoom without getting the color wheel ever time spinning for more than a minute.  I want to install an older vesion but I don't see how to do it. Unlike photoshop and indesign where I can see older versions I don't see any opton for acrobat. please help! It is so awful. If you disable does it go back to an older version?

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New Here ,
Jun 05, 2024 Jun 05, 2024

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The new version is so slow and laggy it's unusable for me.  Also, adding text on top of an existing PDF is a huge pain because, for some reason, you can accidentally select the existing text now when doing this.  Thank you for showing us how to revert to the old version, luckily we still have that option.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 12, 2024 Jul 12, 2024

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Sadly, I agree.  Confusing and difficult to maneuver.

 

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New Here ,
Aug 07, 2024 Aug 07, 2024

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Such a relief ! I was not able to rotate view, find attachment or set panes. Everytime & everywhere an update comes, all things turn upside down. For senior citizens like me, it is very difficult to unlearn the old things.

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New Here ,
Aug 29, 2024 Aug 29, 2024

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To watch the full youtube video click link: https://youtu.be/nvCPeBHKEAk?si=6ftZNzdOQ8q82aVG 

Learn how to EASILY revert your Adobe Acrobat program back to it's previous layout. I find the new Adobe Acrobat Reader style hard to figure out and use . Changing this simple setting made all of the confusion go away! :) My main issue with the new Acrobat layout was that it I couldn't easily find

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New Here ,
Sep 04, 2024 Sep 04, 2024

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Can you stop completely changing the interface every year? No one is asking for this, it really affecs the workflow of the poeple that use adobe pdf daily for work.

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New Here ,
Sep 09, 2024 Sep 09, 2024

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Agree, this "update" (and the apparent trend of software developers merely updating user interfaces and hiding existing functionality to charge more for a new-content-free "update") is complete garbage.

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New Here ,
Sep 26, 2024 Sep 26, 2024

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Seriously Adobe. This is a horrible feature to give us. My brain does not work that way and is hard on my eyes. You should at least give us the option in the new version on what side of the page we want our features. I will NEVER get use to this and now I will have a headache everyday because of you. FYI. You have no way of reveriting back when using the on-line version/account. My rating for this update is -1,000,000,000,000 stars.

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Explorer ,
Sep 27, 2024 Sep 27, 2024

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I don't see improvments. They just wanted to move all the tools to make the user's lives miserable.  Are they adding tools? no, they are just moving everything to make the software less intuitive.  At least they allow you to have more than one window. But, I need to change back for all the other reasons.

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