Adobe Acrobat Pro 2024 - Where's the Go Back Button?

[Nucklehead]

Right clicking or left clicking on any menu bars brings up no drop down menus.  I see page up and page down buttons but no "back to previously viewed page".  I found that Alt+< works for a keyboard command but that is seriously cumbersome.  Who wants to keep a keyboard in their lap and then have to use one hand to press Alt and the other hand to press the left arrow key evertime you want to go back to the previously viewed page instead of just one click with one hand already on the mouse.

I looked for options in preferences and see nothing.  No view options, no menu options.

[Bastian33655260dvso · Accepted solution]

At the bottom left "page view" menu/bar click on the small arrow at the 1:1 view button. This opens a menu that lets you pin other things to this bar, including the button for previous view.

I want this to work with the back button on the mouse (again)! it is really beneficial for reading scientific or long pdf with references to figures, chapters and scitations.

[Bastian33655260dvso]

Addition: if you have a slightly better mouse, you might be able to use their software to easily map alt+left on a mouse button. The same shortcut also works as "back" in browsers, file explorer and others.

[Nucklehead]

Thanks man.  I fianally found it hidden away in a sub menu.  What's wrong with the "View" menu being in the top menu bar with File and Edit like it used to be is what I want to know.  I'm not a genius but I"m not that dumb either.  Maybe if you're on the Adobe software team you need to justify your paycheck by "rearanging" things so it's looks like you're making the interface smarter somehow? 

My Page View button was in a menu bar set to the right side of my screen by default as opposed to yours being on the left side but I knew what you're were talking about because (I thought) I had investigated that button thoroughly but obviously I had not.  But you know, when you do click on that Page View icon at least they could make it so that the entire Page View menu becomes visible instead of a half menu with a tiny More.. at the bottom which reveals a scrollable submenu hidden away.  Not really intuitive per say.  More of a hunt and find which I think is a completely unnecessary waste of time.. but I guess the people trying justify their paychecks would dissagree... 

[Bastian33655260dvso]

You are welcome, thank you for supplying screenshots. That will make it easier for others finding the thread. 
Apologies, I made a mistake, it is on the right side 🙂
Germany has the nice word "verschlimmbessern" for these kind of things (making something supposedly better but worse). But, I do see the point in freeing up more vertical space for the document by having smaller top bars and in reducing/limiting the user's mouse movement to one axis. Our eyes are also more used to going left-right then jumping to the top. This is also less strenuous for touch use. 

[Nucklehead]

"Our eyes are also more used to going left-right then jumping to the top. This is also less strenuous for touch use."

I assumed that anyone who works with documents on a computer got trained to look upwards at the tool bar for "options" to the interface going back to Windows 98.  But I do get a little bit of the point of being less strenous if you're reading a .pdf from a touch device but I believe the vast majority of .pdf documents are probably created and edited on keyboard & monitor systems.  I just wish the vast majority still mattered.

[Impressive_hand3149]

Thank you for the screen shots. I've been hating life with the new Adobe UI. I wish I could go back to the old version with the bar on top. 

[Bob31656597cdyk]

Thank you for revealing where they actually buried this in the latest version. They love moving the most basic things around all the time, and I seldom get their logic for doing so.

[fernando_1002]

The solution provided works but MAN, WHY?? WHY HIDE THE DAMN BUTTON UNDER 3 MENUS? DUDE, IT IS A GO BACK BUTTON! WHY??? GRRRRRRRRRRR! 

[Bob31656597cdyk]

@fernando_1002 Hmm, because they CAN?! (Initutive workflows was never a 'big thing' with Adobe software.)