How do I stop bookmarks pane from opening with every pdf that is opened?

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April 7, 2024
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Having to manually close the bookmarks pane to the right side of the screen is such a waste of time and extremely annoying. Does anyone have a soltuion to stop this?

Everything I have found online and on this forum does offer a permanant solution, only for one document at a time, which is the same if not more processes than closing the bookmarks pane.

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try67

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There is no permanent solution, as this is a setting that is defined in each file's Initial View settings.

You can run an Action on a set of files to change that setting in them, but that's about it.

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UCJ1Author

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Thank you for the reply. It seems crazy this isnt an easy setting change, it wastes so much screen space, and absoulte nightmare when I have tens of detailed drawings to look at. Could you please explain what this Action is and how to run it?

try67

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Go to Tools - Action Wizard and create a new Action. Add to it the "Set Open Options" command (under "Document Processing"), and a Save command (under "Save & Export"). Edit the former by clicking the Specify Settings button on the right-hand side of the window and select Initial View as Page Only:

Leave everything else as is.

Also make sure to untick the "Prompt User" check-box:

Now run this Action on your files, and you're done!

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