making selection tool the default choice

Report · Jun 21, 2024

I have Adobe Acrobat X1 Pro. I want to make the selection tool for text and images, rather than the hand tool (which makes the side scroll bar disappear, maddeningly!!) the default choice when opening documents. I open a document, the hand tool is enabled. I switch this to the selection tool (the scroll bar reappears), close the document, and reopen, and the same thing happens (back to the hand tool, no scroll bar). I have gone into edit-preferences-accessibility and the "Always display the keyboard delection cursor" is not enabled. I check it to enable, close, and reopen. That box remains checked, but the the hand tool is enabled again, no matter what I do. PLEASE HELP!!! (Open to any other way to have the scroll bar be there by default - that's what I'm going after).

thanks in advance!

Report · Jul 03, 2024

Hi there, hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out. Please try the steps below and see if that works:

Open a PDF, right-click to select the SelectTool
In Edit>Preferences>Accessibility>CHECK "Always display the keyboard selection cursor">Click OK (this is unchecked by default)
In Edit>Preferences>General - Change Touch Mode to Always (This is Auto-detect by default)

Note: Acrobat XI is an EOl application (https://adobe.ly/4btzsPy)

~Amal