How To Switch From Window To Tabbed In Acrobat Pro DC?

[Guest]

Hi all,

I was hoping somebody could tell me - how do you switch from a window view to a tabbed view in Acrobat Pro DC?

Currently, Acrobat opens all new PDFs in an entirely separate window; I would like Acrobat to only be one window, but with several tabs - one for each PDF.

I've searched pretty extensively, and have found solutions that seem as if they'd work for other versions - but when following the same instructions, I end up in a menu with different selection options. I'll provide a screen-shot and link to the instructions I've found (they're all pretty similar).

I've checked each of the categories, and can't seem to find the option anywhere. I've also looked through the Adobe Acrobat DC Help PDF, and can't seem to find the answer.

Does anybody have any idea how I can change from a window to tabbed view?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Instructions:     Keeping Tabs on Your Documents | Adobe Document Cloud

Screen-shot of menu - missing the pertinent selection box:

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

Perhaps you don't have the subscription - subscription only feature. Permanent license holders will be able to upgrade one day, we imagine.

[Guest]

Ah - darn! Thank you for your answer.

The computer I'm working on is a campus computer.

I'm not quite sure of the status of our licenses, so I'm wondering: do universities typically not have the full subscription?

[Test Screen Name]

Hmm. It's a little more complicated for volume licenses. Some kinds of volume lucense allow one to pick either the permanent ("classic") or subscription ("continuous") version.  Also they may just have not allowed updates. Let us know the version from Help > About, eg 2015.123.40133.

[Guest]

Seems like the version is 2015.006.30201 (snip below).

[Test Screen Name]

Yes, that is indeed the Classic version. No tabs update available.

[Guest]

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I assume they did this on purpose, and are not planning on putting this feature in the classic version?

[Test Screen Name]

Absolutely on purpose. The classic version does what has always been done in the past...saves up new features and sells an upgrade. Perhaps the organisation will upgrade.

The organisation might have had the choice of Continuous and not used it because they don't want the Siftware to constantly change.

[Guest]

Welllllllll crap. I guess I'll have to talk my IT department.

Thanks for your help!

[CEEH]

I humbly suggest that your online tutorials about using Acrobat Pro DC indicate when various features, like tabbed viewing,  are optional, or not included in some versions. Then, people who don't have a version supporting optional features like tabbed viewing won't feel like idiots when they can't find the feature.

Subscription versions may be a great source of ongoing revenue for Adobe, but many of your users work for large organizations and don't have a choice which type of Acrobat Pro DC their IT department installs on their computers.  Since my version is 2015 Release (Perpetual), a lot of the features in your tutorial don't -- and won't ever -- work.

[karinemaca]

Hello.

Beside the setting in the preferences, is there a command to do it manually (per case basis) ?

Since there are commands to display tabs in a cascade or in portions of the screen, isn't there somewhere a way to gather independent windows back into tabs ?

Thank you.

[karinemaca]

I found, we can drag and drop one tab beside to another one, this merges two windows. I knew that but if the preference to "Open new windows in tabs" is not set On, we can't even see one single tab. It sounds logical, but maybe the text string could have been something like "Use tabs to organize windows"

[katie_1930]

I have found one round about way of getting multiple tabs to show up in one window when they open in separate windows. The files I'm opening are stored in temp files which makes my case a little unique. 

Right click on the tab you want open in the other window.

Click "reveal in explorer"

Drag that file into the window where your other files are.

If your files aren't temporary, you can probably also just "open recent" files on the home tab of the window you want to use after opening them separately. 

[JR Boulay]

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