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Toolbar has switched sides from left to right

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
April 3, 2022
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The toolbar that has been on the left side of the app for years has suddenly decided to show up on the right. Clearly this is some illogical, ill-advised, and not well thought out idea.

We need it fixed and returned to the left side of the screen immediately.

It has beyond ruined our work flow.

The phrase goes, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." So why did you feel the need to break a perfectly working app?

Until you do fix, how do I get back to an older version of this??

Modern Acrobat

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MidEvil2023

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I agree this was a dumb move. Adobe is just trying to justify a new paintjob nobody asked for. I have been dealing with the the last two weeks and just came across here to see how to change it. It is ugly and makes no sense.

brianl77127267

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On OS or mac go to "View" and scroll down to "Disable new Acrobat".

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Abe JTV

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You might've found the answer on a different forum but in case you have not if you click View near the top left-hand corner the 9th option down says Enable New Acrobat, click on that and Adobe will prompt you to restart the application, and should change the tools to the left-hand side.

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shabenz4Author

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That is not even an option on my View menu. 😞

I'm over it.

*Shannon Benzing*

Bernd Alheit

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Have you seen following in the past?

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Yigal29195353vacl

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That was a stupid move by Adobe.

Make it go away and don't do it again

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shabenz4Author

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I have a subscription and should have Pro DC but not sure that I really do.

Anyway, attached is shot of app.

I recently had to reinstall all my apps on computer and these "new" versions are all wrong.

As you'll see, on the right is this toolbar. Until VERY recently, it always appeared on the left. It is senseless.

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That is indeed Acrobat DC - looks like mine. Ok, so far as I know that toolbar (which was new for Acrobat DC) has always been on the right. There's an entirely separate thing that used to appear at the left - bookmark (table of contents), thumbnails etc. To make that appear, click the narrow bar at the extreme left of the window. You have a similar bar on the right that you can click to make the right toolbar disappear.

If you are used to an old version of Acrobat, most of the tools that used to be on the top menu have now moved to the right hand toolbar.

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shabenz4Author

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Did you upgrade to DC recently? DC, at least in the English version, has always had the tools on the right. Before that, Acrobat X and XI had toolbars that could be moved or floated.

Not as far as I know. Have been using whatever is in creative cloud for the last 2 years. And that toolbar was on the left, and only showed up when I clicked a button looking for it. Not otherwise.

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Also, a screen shot may help us understand which of the toolbars you mean. Please include the whole Acrobat window, but no personal info.

Bernd Alheit

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What app does you use?

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