I am commenting on a document in Acrobat DC. At first, the full/longer commenting toolbar displayed at the top of my screen (see attached screenshort), but then only a shorter commenting toolbar (another screenshot attached).
What's going on? How do get the full toolbar back? (I really need to use the strike-out and replace tool!)
Did you happen to use Acobat's "Share for Review?" It's also may be called "Send for Commenting" and "Send for Shared Review" or "Share with Others."
When you use that function, the commeting tools are very limited. To get the full toolbar back, you'll need to share the file a different way. Like through Dropbox or One Drive... any kind of file sharing where the file is downloaded locally and then commented in Acrobat.
It's a mystery to me why the commenting tools in the desktop version of Acrobat are limited when the file is shared through Acrobat. But that's the way it is.
I don't remember activiting Share for Review or the similar features. How do I turn them off? Can I still use the @ feature in the comments to notify colleagues about a comment? That is, can I insert @name with the sharing off and then have the feature work when I turn the sharing function back on?
I just attempted to disable sharing using the Reviewing preferences. Then I went into the comments pane and used teh @ function. And the file still uploaded to Document Cloud.
So I wonder what disable that reviewing preference actually does... Becasue it didn't disable file upload and the file is still listed as Shared.
@arvindy Can you provide some insight on this?
Hi Document_Geek ,
Yes you are right, it does not disable every entry point for initiating Adobe Document Cloud based review.
And so @ function will work as it used to work.
I am sure you are aware of an older way of initiating review in Acrobat i.e. internal server(Network folder/WebDav server folder/SharePoint subsite) based review. Which is a bit complex and involes may steps to initiate review. Let us call it legacy review for reference.
Now coming back to your question. Here is my response:
1) If the pref "Share for review using Adobe Document Cloud" is enabled you will not be able to initiate legacy review. Every invocation point will lead you to the new review.
2). If the pref "Share for review using Adobe Document Cloud" is disabled, you will be able to initiate legacy review from two invocation points i.e. from 1). Tools>>Send for Comments 2). Send for Comments in RHP. Rest of the invocation points still lead to new review.
I hope it helps. Please let me know if you have any more queries.
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