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Doug5FFC
Doug5FFC
Participating Frequently
August 31, 2021
Question

See the same tools in the Tools Pane as the ones I put there last time I closed Adobe DC

  • August 31, 2021
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This is what I would like to do. I would like to take some tools off the Tools Pane and put others on, close the application, and see the same set of tools on the Tools Pane that I put there the next time I open Adobe DC. Is this even possible? If not, why not, it would seem to be a rather simple user customization feature. I pant for light, but there is no light.

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K
KernelC
Participant
September 8, 2021

Here is what the instructions for customizing the Tools Pane in Adobe Pro DC should say. Your mileage may vary.

 

Adobe DC Pro has a Tools Pane that can be displayed along the right-hand side of the app window. Users can customize the Tools Pane to show only the tools they want to see rather than the tools some genius at Adobe decided users should want to see; however sometimes these customizations get undone.

To redo Tools Pane customizations in Adobe DC Pro:

  1. Open the Tools Pane by clicking Tools in the upper left hand side of the app window, below the menu and to the right of Home. (Opening the Tools Pane in any other way will not allow you to make changes.)
  2. Hover over the Tools on the Tools Pane that you do not want; click the “X” that will appear to the right of the cartoonish icon and the tool name to remove from the Pane.
  3. Drag the Tools that you do want from the grid of tools in the main part of the window and drop where you want them to be in the Tools Pane. You can also reorder the tools in the Tools Pane by dragging and dropping.
  4. When you close and reopen Adobe you should see the tools you chose in the Tools Pane and no others. Until the time that you don’t, in which case follow the instructions above, again.
AkanchhaS8194121
AkanchhaS8194121
Legend
September 1, 2021

Hi Doug,

 

Hope you are doing well.

If we understand your requirement correctly, then you are trying to customize the toolbar of Acrobat DC and set the quick tools as per your desire. If this is the case, then yes it can be achieved.

How? For that you may see the step-by-step solution mentioned in this help article here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/how-to/customize-toolbar.html 

 

To remove some of the existing Quick tools, check the step-4 in shared article above, select the already added tool and press the Delete icon at upper right corner.

 

Hope this solves the purpose.

 

Thanks,

Akanchha 

Doug5FFC
Doug5FFCAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 1, 2021

No, Akanchha, that is not the question I asked. I do not want to customize the tools on the Adobe toolbar. I want to customize the tools in the Tools Pane on the right hand side of Adobe DC, the place the tools appear in a vertical list with those cartoonish icons next to them. And I want the customizations to that pane to persist after I close and reopen Adobe DC. Is there not a way to do that? If there is not, or if you have no answer, please say that rather than changing my question to one that there you have an answer for.

Doug5FFC
Doug5FFCAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 1, 2021

Yes! This is possible too.

You can simply drag and drop the tool icon to Toolpane. So, go to Tools, select the Tool you would like to add in Toolpane, drag and drop in the right hand side list. You can also remove the one from the list that you do not want to see there.

This list should be intact when you open the application next time.

 

~Akanchha 


Sorry, that is not working either. When I click the Tools in the Adobe DC window I get a page that lists all the tools with their icons and gives me options in a dropdown to add/remove/open/learn more. (I can also get that page by clicking More Tools in the Tools Pane itself.) I can customize the Tool Pane once with those options, but when I close the program and reopen it the customizations are lost.

 

Other than this process I cannot drag tools from the Quick Tools to or from the Tools Pane or drag them out of the Tools Pane to remove them.

 

Is there some other version of Adobe DC where this is possible? Am I not understanding something?

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