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How to open pdf's in separate windows? [2016] [Locked]

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December 7, 2016
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Two answers are marked Correct. One is how to disable the "New Experience" and the other is

from 2016 and tells you how to disable tabs and see the PDFs in separate windows.

Separate Windows are not available (yet) in the New Experience. The first step is to disable it.

When I open different pdf's I want them to open in separate windows.

It is possible to manually separate the different documents after opening them by dragging the tabs.

But it doesn't seem to be possible to set as default that the files open in separate windows.

How do I do that?

How to

Correct answer peters89803752

On the newest version (May 2023), you have to first select "Disable New Acrobat" from the upper left hamburger menu first before the option to "Open documents as new tabs in the same window" will appear. To make that option visible, you have to first "Disable New Acrobat"

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NudeCruzer

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Go to View>Disable new acrobat>then the option reappears in Preferences>General.

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NudeCruzer

Inspiring

(easier than watching the video.)

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d3s1gnjet

Known Participant

Hello @PositiveEnergy1 - looking for a way to do this without disabling New Acrobat and its new features and UI. The video you link to requires using Preferences to roll back to a previous version, which is not acceptable for the future.

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d3s1gnjet

Known Participant

Adobe Acrobat 2023 ("New Acrobat" needs the option to open each document in a new window, without disabling New Acrobat.

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NudeCruzer

Inspiring

Adobe did say they were going to change this and allow the customer to have the choice, but it sounds now they changed their minds. They clearly wanted to force us to have all documents in the same window. Their answer, now, appears to be, "get used to it"; we will not make it easy to look at two documents at the same time. Adobe has spoken.

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Gus33459743wkow

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Or, you can open the PDF files with Google Chrome. Certainly, Chrome allows
you to open files in multiple windows separately to compare between them.
In the meantime, Adobe like any other aging company, they are AGING.

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Deborah24300670tcgk

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Boy, between this and the vanished scroll bars...I'm trying to understand why anyone thought this would be a good idea. I have just spent 45 minutes trying to troubleshoot this misery. WE PAY FOR THIS SOFTWARE, every month, bc why should you be able to actually own something you pay for?? lol.

So we're paying Adobe to make it unusable, and waste our time trying to make it work again? I don't think that's the agreement.

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Gus33459743wkow

New Participant

Simple, by open them on Google Chrome.

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Katherine33145422dbst

New Participant

Does not work with new version.

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Lizzie31937572fx9p

New Participant

The new version of Adobe doesn't have the option anymore to "Open documents in a new tab on the same window".

You can click on the tab, drag it off the bar, and release and it will stay in it's own window.

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Rebecca33013194hbwx

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When you have 2 PDFs open at the same time and they're in the same window (I know. I hate it too!) try going to one of the document tabs at the top and just drag it over to your desktop. It should then "separate" the two documents so you can view them side by side now. I just tried it and it worked.

AnandSri

Community Manager

Hi All,

I hope you all are doing well.

We appreciate your valuable feedback! We're always looking for ways to improve Acrobat, and we appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your feedback. 

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

We are actively working on all the currently unavailable features, such as 'open cross-document links in the same window' and customizing these preferences. We will address them with the highest priority.

As you get more comfortable with the new interface, please contact us with specific questions on tools, features, or functionalities. We're happy to provide helpful resources and answers to your questions.

If your critical workflows are impacted, you can switch to the old UI from the "Menu" on the top left corner of Windows OS and View Menu on MacOS. We will follow up with a detailed community-featured post, guiding you to familiarise yourself with the new interface and regular updates on upcoming changes.

Thanks,

Anand Sri.

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richardc59275924

New Participant

I'm not going to lie.................... for an update................... this is absolutely awful. Such a critical need ditched? Mindblowing. It's an absolute essental to have the ability to do this! Beggars belief that someone so high up at Adobe thought that this was a good idea! Even worse that others approved it!

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Colleen32905054j4wj

New Participant

I agree. I have to wonder if the people who write this software actually use it. This is such a basic need -- to be able to view two PDF file pages side by side -- that removing that option makes the software pretty much unusable much of the time.

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Nik30814584bgbh

New Participant

Hello. My Adobe PDF just updated and I can't find the 'Open documents as new tabs in the same window' option in the settings anymore. Where has the option gone?

mariahweyne

Inspiring

You probably now have the New Experience. You can disable it .

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JLCampbell2010

New Participant

This is driving me mad. I have checked the box, exited and restarted the application countless times and still it reverts to the default of separate tabs. Why can I not get this to work properly? Is there a tab that requires "save changes" somehwere that I am not seeing?

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Amy303068813wp4

New Participant

I am experiencing the same frustration. After disabling the new Acrobat, I can uncheck the box "Open documents as new tabs in the same window (requires relaunch)" but the setting will not save. Very irritating!

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Amy303068813wp4

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I am running Adobe Acrobat Standard 2023 on Windows 11.

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