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How do I stop the side toolbar from appearing every time I open a pdf in Acrobat DC?

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April 7, 2015
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Right side tool bar is annoying in Acrobat DC . How can this be fixed?

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Correct answer JonPerera

Hi there,

The new "right hand toolbar" in Acrobat DC is always on by default, proving instant access to frequently used tools. That said, we're definitely hearing a # of customers that want Acrobat DC to "remember" the last state. So if you close it, it'll remain closed when you open it next. Looking to have a fix in place in next ~3 months here.

Thank you for the feedback.

Jon Perera

Vice President

Adobe Document Cloud

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Anonymous

I too find this side bar extremely annoying, along with the fact that I have to close it e-v-e-r-y time I open up a new document. I have absolutely no need of it. And why has the zooming option disappeared from the upper bar? Now that was handy.

I'm going to uninstall this version and look for a way to install an older one back.

chriss95308497

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Interesting to see this. I needed to add Adobe Reader to a new computer, saw the DC (still don't know what that signifies), then couldn't get rid of the right side tool "pain" (found out this can't be done), so uninstalled DC and installed XI. Will wait for updates. And I agree with what others said about the appearance - DC looks washed out.

Otherwise, thanks for a basically good product over the years.

Chris

OmarBeyaty

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Hover your mouse pointer over the left edge of the tool bar, exactly in the center.. you will see small black arrow aiming to the side bar itself, click it then the bar will disappear...another click to the same, the side bar will pop up.another way by using shift+F4

mahelfri94

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DUH... but when you are in and out of pdf files all day long doing that is a HUGE waste of time. There is no setting to PERMANENTLY set it to not open files this way, which is the problem.

OmarBeyaty

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pressing SHIFT+F4 wont be a HUGE waste of time....otherwise, I think Im talking to Bill Gates.

spacespencer

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I have several more issues:

a) How do you change the background color to a darker tone? Doing a lot of print stuff for clients from the health/medical sector which are mostly white leaves me unable to see where the pages end and the light background starts.

b) Keyboard shortcut cmd+w just closes the document but leaves the weird summary page open. Does anybody know how many documents I open and close per day and that I now have to close that page every damn single time again and again?

c) As mentioned in several other posts: I'd really appreciate global settings for that tool panel (to go away!) and other panels (page overview).

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Anonymous

Agree with spacespencer, and have even more issues ...

I share the issue with that right-hand tool pane - mouse-hand sore, doubling up on clicks to keep closing it - I have small screen, precious real-estate, and it's a REAL pain.

Missing the percentage zoom box.

My biggest gripe, however, is with the non-standard, all pale 'disabled' looking menus. Please, Please configure it so the menus use the same standard menu styles that I have configured in the operating system already. To me the menu options are hard to see. This is terrible accessibility.

My sense is that Adobe sacked all the usability experts before 'designing' the user interface. Adobe reader and Acrobat have always been a bit wierd, but getting wierder with the DC release. I just need it to be boring and simple and not need to be globally configured anything to view PDFs.

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JonPereraCorrect answer

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Hi there,

The new "right hand toolbar" in Acrobat DC is always on by default, proving instant access to frequently used tools. That said, we're definitely hearing a # of customers that want Acrobat DC to "remember" the last state. So if you close it, it'll remain closed when you open it next. Looking to have a fix in place in next ~3 months here.

Thank you for the feedback.

Jon Perera

Vice President

Adobe Document Cloud