Stop Acrobat Pro opening documents in tabs

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
June 28, 2023
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I am running Acrobat Pro 2023.003.20215 and it's opening all documents as tabs in the same window. This means I can't view two documents simultanesouly side by side. There used to be a Preference option to not have documents open in tabs, but with this version I can't find it. Anyone have a solution to this? Otherwise I need to open the documents in Preview (I'm on a Mac). Thanks.

Correct answer JR Boulay

You have 3 choices:

- Disable the Tab view in the Preferences.

- Clic on a tab and drag it outside the main Acrobat window.

- Use the View menu : Tile : H or V

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d3s1gnjet

Known Participant

Adobe Acrobat 2023 ("New Acrobat") needs the option to open each document in a new window. This should be possible without disabling New Acrobat; the option should simply be reinstated.

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J Woelfel

Participant

Gee, what a choice: Force users to work with the oversize menu/toolbar on the right side of the of document or use New Acrobat and all documents open in one tab. Bad user experience.

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neiderhl

Participating Frequently

Hi there,

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble.

This is a known issue and our engineering team is actively working on it.

The fix will be available in the future updates.

Thanks for your understanding.

~Amal

Now, if only your selections/changes would "stick" or save. I repeatedly turn off the new UI, but as Adobe restarts to do this, it restarts as the new UI anyway. No preferences save & the disconnect between Adobe & Microsoft is getting ridiculous. There's always some update causing a problem. Makes it not worth even using Adobe.

AkanchhaS8194121

Legend

Hi @AM278

If you cannot find the preferences for opening documents in a new window, then you are certainly working on Acrobat's new UI.

With the latest changes, this option has been removed from the preferences.

As suggested above, you need to switch back to the old view to bring back the following preferences.

First, click on the hamburger icon in the upper left corner
Then select Disable New Acrobat

Once you get the old UI back.

Click on Adobe Acrobat>Preferences >General> uncheck "Open documents as new tab in same window"> OK> close and reopen Acrobat

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Akanchha

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AM278Author

Participant

Thank you. Yes, it seemed that I was working on the new UI (I was not aware as it updated automatically), so I have reverted back to the old UI. I will say that Adobe should refrain from removing the option of opening documents not in the same tab in future releases, as this will deter many people, including me, from using Acrobat. We need to be able to view multple documents as separate windows. Thank you for your help!