Where has the check box gone?!

My bad – just relaunched Acrobat and appears to be business as usual. Thank goodness.

So now we have multiple different check marks. A green "completed by" (or other colored status icons) and a "checkmark" that has no designated meaning at all. What a solution is that? Why not just add the greyed out status icons beneath every comment (marked as yellow in the image below), letting us click them? This new checkbox is a workaround, not an intelligent UI solution.

I've installed the update and turned on the "Show checkbox" preference.

• We need to be able to quickly glance at a list of comments and see what is checked/unchecked. The checkbox (whether checked or unchecked) needs to be visible at all times. An empty checkbox is easy to see, an invisible checkbox is easy to overlook. Currently it is impossible to scan the list and quickly see which boxes are checked vs. unchecked.
• We also need to be able to quickly add checkmarks to completed items, with one click. Currently we have to first click the comment to reveal the invisible checkbox and then do a second click to check the box.

I'm still not calling this as fixed.

• The preferences option for the checkbox is the wrong way around. Users should have to opt OUT of seeing checkboxes, not opt IN to see checkboxes.
• As Info1OOG points out, you still have to select a comment to get to its checkbox. This wasn't always the case, as Kelly Vaughn's video shows: PDF Commenting: Part 3: Working with Comments - YouTube
• As of writing this forum post, an original request at the Acrobat.Uservoice site had 216 requests to bring the checkboxes back, and is the third most requested feature request (even above "remove the big blue share button"). That said, the way to implement the change puts the onus on the user to change the UI behaviour through the preferences, rather than the software being restored to its previous behaviour.

Thoughts?

I just checked my Acrobat and I don't have that preference. I am up to date. Do any users have that option, or is it only displayed in the "What's New" article?

In the meantime . . .

As a solution to the check box issue in question, I have verified and suggest this process with Acrobat 2019.008.20074 on Windows 10 Pro. While the steps are slightly different than before it is nearly as fast as previous versions for processing multiple changes.

Follow these steps;

1) Open document.

2) Open comment panel.

3) Process first item.

4) When the first item is completed,

    >right click on the comment,

    >choose Add Checkmark

5) Left click Filter Comments Icon at the top of the comments panel,

    select Unchecked under the CHECKED option,

    then click Apply on the lower right of the dialogue.

6) Proceed to process items in the list.

    As each item is completed simply

    >right click

    >choose Add Checkmark and the item will hide automatically.

7) Checked and/or Unchecked comments can now be filtered together or seperately.

Hi Document Geek, do you have any issues with the Filter button in Acrobat? Since one of the recent updates we get the spinning wheel of death whenever we try and filter comments. I've tried contacting Adobe and they were no help. It's been like this for about 2-3 months and is making workflow really difficult.