Open documents in separate windows.

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April 18, 2023
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My Acrobat Pro must've just updated, and I am no longer able to choose to open documents in seperate windows. This option appears to have disappeared from the preferences. Does anyone know how this can be switched back on? I cannot stand having to view docs in tabs within the same window. the version is 2023.001.20143 for MAC.

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Correct answer Tariq Ahmad

With Cascade, you'll need to select it each time as opposed to the documents opening in separate windows as before? Thanks.

Hi all,

This is to update you that the feature is available in Acrobat now. If it is disabled, please check this preference.

The preferences settings control how the application behaves whenever you use it; they are not associated with any particular PDF document.

1. To access the Preferences dialog, choose the hamburger menu(Windows) > Preferences or Acrobat / Adobe Acrobat > Preferences (macOS).
2. In the Preference's dialog box's left pane, select General, then uncheck the "Open documents as new tabs in the same window(requires relaunch)"

3. Click Ok

4. Relaunch Acrobat

To know more about opening documents: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/opening-pdfs.html

Let us know if that helps.

~Tariq

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Blue Sky 59599194

New Participant

I am supporting the request from @d3s1gnjet

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Adobe Acrobat 2023 ("New Acrobat") needs the option to open each document in a new window.

This should be possible without disabling New Acrobat.

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Opening documents in tabs, depending on your workflow is extremely cumbersome.

Bernd Alheit

Braniac

You can disable the new UI.

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deborahwork

Participating Frequently

The problem (for me) is that, except for a couple of things, I LIKE the new UI. This thread is about one of the things I don't care for. The other thing is the different sequence of steps to SAVE a document. I'm slowly getting used to that one :-). I do hope they add back the open PDFs in separate windows very soon.

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defaultgfa1d7y4fb8c

New Participant

Has this been fixed yet? It has been the biggest reason I keep reverting back to old Adobe. Its annoying to drag and drop to a new window when most of my days are spent working between multiple documents at a time.

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deborahwork

Participating Frequently

I have not gotten any notification that they've fixed this yet, although they said they would update us once a fix is available. Don't you just love it when software designers remove a feature upon which you have relied (sometimes for years)?

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Gayle_AQ

New Participant

I need a fix for this as well. It's very cumbersome to have the PDFs tabs in the same window. Please fix this quickly!

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Gayle_AQ

New Participant

So on a whim, I clicked and dragged one of the tabs to the desktop and that created two separate PDFs...! See if this works for you.

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deborahwork

Participating Frequently

Thanks. I know about this one. I just want them to create a default or a setting to open pdfs in separate windows.

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