How do you ALWAYS SHOW the thumbnails pane by default in Acrobat DC?

[dmancini_mc]

I have looked through all the settings and searched here and on Google – maybe I missed it, but I don't see the option ANYWHERE.

Acrobat DC refuses to persist my decision to open the thumbnails pane after I have closed the program and opened another file.

This is HORRIBLY annoying because I have to delete pages from almost every document I open in Acrobat DC (nature of my job and use case), and since.... "upgrading....."  *cough*  .... from Acrobat XI, I now have to "unhide" the left sidebar (I didn't ever have to do this in Acrobat XI), AND THEN tell it to show the thumbnails.  This is a HUGE waste of time working with multiple files that have to be edited thus.

I have the latest version: 2015.010.20056 on Windows 7.

[steveramz]

Thanks for the reply, the "Pin" option does not seem to appear in Acrobat 11.0.20

Is there something else I need to do to get that option to show up?

[jamiem24534529]

YES!!!!!!!!!

[jonl50352129]

How can I pin the page thumbnails in the Mac version of Acrobat Pro DC?

Thanks

[try67]

You can't. It's a setting of the files you open, not of the application.

[_User888]

How come so many likes? What is LHP, where is an illustration? 

[RomeoRazi_CPA]

LHP is "Left Hand Pane"

[Edward23914449xaa2]

Thank you on the "Pin page thumbnails" feature, you are right on.

Ed

[Dcheever]

This fix makes absolutely no sense to me. why is this so difficult now?

[Rose35487165d9vj]

It worked!! You saved my day,  thank you!!!

[dcdave87]

From the Adobe rep who posted below (I tried this and it works; like many of you, I was desperate for this feature as I always delete the first page of PDFs I download and re-paginate them, too).

1) Launch any PDF and Expand the Panel that you want the acrobat to open by default for every document(For Ex. Page Thumbnails)

2) Right click on the LHP Navigation strip , Select the option from the context menu "Pin Page thumbnails" .

3) now try out by launching any other pdf -> You will observe that the Page thumbnails panel would appear expanded by default on launch(If document does not have any other document specific preference )

[NJCUSID]

This worked! Thanks for the solution!

[Gina24159033kdw8]

Thank you!!

[MattHK @ AIM]

Please mark this now as  ANSWERED as per ajain@adobe.com 's reply. (copy/pasted below)

1) Launch any PDF and Expand the Panel that you want the acrobat to open by default for every document(For Ex. Page Thumbnails)

2) Right click on the LHP Navigation strip , Select the option from the context menu "Pin Page thumbnails" .

3) now try out by launching any other pdf -> You will observe that the Page thumbnails panel would appear expanded by default on launch(If document does not have any other document specific preference ) Refer here for more info on this What's new in Adobe Acrobat DC -> "Retain the last LHP state across Acrobat launches"

[barryl74677330]

"Pin" option not available, even though Adobe website says it should be there. Version 2015.006.30306

[try67]

In the Classic track it will only be available starting with Acrobat 2017, I believe.

[Bernd Alheit]

The new features are not available in old versions.

[sunshinec48258238]

No, this doesn't work.  It pins the bookmarks menu, which does actually help, because it at least opens that pane by default, but you still have to click the pages to get the pages thumbnails to open.  So it saves 1 click, but does not open the pages.

[gifted_smarts15D5]

Npe, not on Mac anyway, simply fails.  Se may rant below.

[Test Screen Name]

The new feature page says "Acrobat DC Continuous" but that's not what you have. You have "Classic".

[VC007]

The "pinning" the thumbnails has a side-effect.  Once you pin thumbnails, bookmarks, etc. the control-B function which normally will bookmark with the highlighted text as the title of the bookmark no longer functions properly.  It will create a bookmark but only titles it untitled.  Since we typically work with documents that have to be bookmarked, it is easier/faster to press f4 at the open of every document than to type the titles of all the bookmarks in so many documents.   The control-B function works normally again as soon as you 'unpin' the pinned thumbnail, bookmarks, etc.

[John56789]

Thank you.  This worked for me.

[paula41304977]

I cannot understand this instruciton.  Dont use acronyms.  What is LHP?  What is the Navagatin Strip?

I have gone onto the internet looking for a diagram of where is the Navagation Strip.  Cant fined one.  People talk about it but I dont know what it is or what it looks like.

[try67]

LHP = Left Hand Panel

You can see it in the images posted above.

[Test Screen Name]

Confusing stuff.

LHP = left hand panel. Simply, it's the space where you want thumbnails.

Navigation strip is the strip to the left of that, with a few icons in it, where you can click them for thumbnails, pages and so on. Right click in that strip, to get the menu you need.

[coolpillows]

I'm sorry but this whole thread is comically complex.  I too had to ponder what "LHP" was but more than that, the fact that I had to come here to learn this means that something this simple (viewing thumbnails) has become so complex should tell us all something about the world we live in.  Four pages of comments on this one topic over several years!?  

I will admit, just a few months ago I located the thumbnails after poking around.  I hadn't been in Acrobat in a while and forgot where they were.  I'll remember this time, I promise. 

Until they are tucked away under SOP (Some Other Place).