New Adobe Acrobat DC Layout

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June 30, 2023
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A couple of weeks ago I opened a pdf and found that there is a new layout to my Adobe Acrobat DC. It appears to be very much the excat same program, but now all of the Tools are on the left, rather than the right, as well as a few other minor changes to the appearance. What I can't figure out is if there has been any added benefits. Hard to imagine it would be an update that only forces you to relearn where all of the Tools are, but doesn't offer an added benefit with the change.

And if there is no benefit, is there a way to revert back to the older layout?

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Meenakshi Negi

Community Manager

Hi Rob30812518n7rx and ryan.kupres

Thank you for reaching out.

Please refer to the information provided in the following help document about the new Acrobat layout: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html.

You may share your feedback with the team via the following page: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac.

Let us know if you need any help.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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MACARTHUR33745116m9p7

New Participant

What the h*** was wrong with the old layout that Adobe felt so compeled to change it? I had an awful time finding the icons for things like zoom, search, page numbers, etc.f

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ryan.kupres

New Participant

I have this same issue. Suddenly the layout is totally different with no quick action toolbar and all things are on the left side of the screen. I agree with Rob30812518n7rx, this layout is absolutely no value add and I need to be able to use it using the old layout. PLEASE let us know how we can do this! I am using Adobe Acrobat 23.003.20215. This is so terrible and I am completely disabled by this change.

mariahweyne

Inspiring

You can revert to the old one.

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Robert22386970aykd

New Participant

THANK YOU. Out with the New and back to the Old.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

Brainiac

For now, yes you can revert to the old interface.

From the upper left, select the hamburger menu (3 horizontal bars, maybe labeled "Menu") and select Disable New Acrobat.

On Macs, it's under the View menu.

So far, I haven't detected any new features or utilities, just a rearrangement of what was there and some bug fixes.

And I haven't heard any comments like "gee, this is great Adobe...thanks for switching my left-side tools to the right, and my right-side tools to the left and making everything into tiny grey icons."

Thank goodness we can switch to the old interface. For now, at least.

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