Acrobat Reader DC: Find the hand and select tools

The best solution for many of the newly introduced flaws in Acrobat is downgrading to v. XI. That version is about 50-75% faster than Acrobat DC, requires 25-50% less screen estate and when used with Windows 10 Threshold 2 (Version 10.0.10586), you can run actions without Acrobat "steeling focus". If Acrobat loads another PDF during an action, only the taskbar flashes and you can continue working in another app. Thank you Microsoft for fixing an Adobe issue!

For Adobe: how about just restoring the capability to dock the select tool to the toolbar? It makes no sense to have done away with that. It has to be one of the most commonly used tools so why create more steps to access it? Seems like change for for the sake of change.

Thanks David for your help! I spent at least 2 hours, broke my laptop keyboard and trew my mouse out the window trying to figure that out. You certainly saved my fist and my screen!

Thanks!

Wanted to give my 2 cents on the fact that there is no option to deselect Hand Tool as the default.  I HATE the hand tool, find it awkward and, for my purposes, a time suck.  I would LOVE the option to set whichever tool option I prefer as the default.  Why would you not allow users to select the tool that is the primary interface with the product?  Absurd.  As it stands I have to change this every time I open a PDF, and at times I am opening hundreds at one sitting while performing a task.  Imagine how frustrating that is! Please update this product so that the end user can choose their own defaults, instead of the manufacturer.  Thank you!

Thank you so much for this post! I spent 30 mins myself trying to figure out how to disable the marque search and return to text select mode.  Acrobat DC is the least intuitive software I've ever seen from Adobe.

Ich schließe mich der Bitte an, das Hand-Werkzeug und das Auswahl-Werkzeug wieder so in die Werkzeugleiste zu integrieren, dass diese (bei entsprechender Einstellung) dort dauerhaft angezeigt werden. Wenn man es jahrelang gewohnt ist, mit diesen Symbolen schnell zu arbeiten, will man dafür nicht plötzlich auf Tastaturbefehle ausweichen müssen.

Bitte schnellstmöglich ändern. So ist das neue Programm - egal welche Verbesserungen es auch mitbringt - schlechter als jede Vorgängerversion.

why is Adobe making the reader to be less and less intuitive?

very unimpressive !

Why are the hand and select tool available when the page control toolbar is undocked but they are not available if the toolbar is docked?  These tools should always be available, they are two of the most basic tools in Reader.

It is strange how the hand and pointer tools are not available under the select and zoom tools. I found that if you are in another tool that esc brings you to the hand tool.

After “Find”, I think the functions I use most often in Adobe Reader are switching the pointer between the “Hand tool” and the “Select tool”, and the Zoom Value menu, for selecting a precise level of zoom.   So I would like buttons for all these functions to be permanently visible on the toolbar.  I find it extremely irritating with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC that whilst ‘View’ ‘Show/Hide’ ‘Toolbar Items’ will allow a host of less useful buttons to be placed individually on the toolbar, this cannot be done with these key ones.  The usually hidden Page Control toolbar includes these buttons, unless I pin it to the toolbar to keep it visible, when the buttons switching the pointer between the “Hand tool” and the “Select tool” disappear.  I hope future versions of Adobe Reader will rectify this ridiculous situation by including buttons for switching the pointer between the “Hand tool” and the “Select tool”, and for the Zoom Value menu, amongst the individually selectable buttons available from ‘View’ ‘Show/Hide’ ‘Toolbar Items’.

Chris