Navigation/sidebar missing

[Steve Kelly]

I have a 100 page pdf im scrolling through on 'page per view mode'.

I can scroll up and down with my mouse gestures or use the up and down arrows in the menu bar.

BUT...i used to be able to use a sidebar slider to quickly go back or forward through the document.

Im not sure where this function is, how ive turned it off, or whether its been removed.

Apologies for my lack of knowledge on this...its driving me mad. I lierally cant figure out out get from P7 to P87 (for instance) in any swift manner.

Thanks in advance.

[Abambo]

What is your exact version of Acrobat and what is your OS?

It looks like this is a "design feature" of the new Acrobat. You can search the forum for multiple entries for this.

[Steve Kelly]

Hi Abambo.

im using the latest Mac OS and the most up to date Acrobat.

Ade you saying that this navigation method no longer exists?

I can't seem to find any articles on the forums about this so I assumed I'd just inadvertently switched this off or made a mistake.

[Abambo]

Please always give exact version numbers. The latest may not be true and for sure it will be obsolete at the next update.

I'm not a macOS user, so I can't help further. But I've read somewhere that these changes are by design because of design macOS guidelines. But as I said, as a Windows user this does not stick with me…

[Steve Kelly]

sure, i see youre point there 🙂

MacOS 14.0 and Acrobat Pro V23

[Steve Kelly]

I finally found the threads about this issue. I like all the other users are just stunned that this decision was made. It is complete nonsense to implement this.Im awaiting a fix from Adobe, and in the meantime ill try and revert back to an older, and seriously actually usable version. Thanks for the pointers by the way.

[Steve Kelly]

And to anyone following this thread, the workaround for a mac user is to install the older version...which bizarly i cant find in the CC app, but luckily someone else had posted a link to it.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/download-install/kb/acrobat-2020-downloads.html

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

the older version...which bizarly i cant find in the CC app,

By @Steve Kelly

Acrobat is indeed annoyingly different to other Creative Cloud applications in this sense. Acrobat does not update through the Creative Cloud desktop tool. Finding an old version is not easy. If you have an Enterprise or Teams subscription, you may be able to create install files for that previous version.

Don't forget to switch off the auto-update.