Adobe Reader DC, Ctrl - F Search Bar, Despawns on its own after search

Report · Oct 19, 2019

Hopefully this is a minor issue and just a setting I can adjust.

I use a handful of PDF's that I have to search through constantly to look up internal accounting codes. I'll keep the document up on one of my screens, hit CTRL - F the first time of the day, do my search then leave the PDF there until I have to do another search. Drop in the next term to the already open search window and I'm good to go.

The new problem I'm running into is that when my search is 'done' aka I get to the last entry or there is no such word\number Adobe Reader is now shutting down the search bar so I have to hit CTRL - F again. I know it sounds like a minor gripe but when I'm processing bills and searching up items in volume it gets frustrating.

Is this something I can toggle? Or is this one of those random things that no one has ever experienced and I'm stuck with it until I re-install my OS, get a new computer or go with a 3rd party option?

Appreciate any help guys.

Report · Oct 19, 2019

Hey,

Greetings! Sorry to hear that you're facing issues while using the Find tool. We have notified our engineering teams about the issue that you're facing and we will update you once the issue will get fixed in our upcoming releases.

Regards

Adobe Acrobat Desktop Team.

Report · Oct 24, 2019

Adobe Acrobat DC and Reader DC official update (2019.021.20049) containing the fix for this issue is now available. This update will be automatically pushed to all existing installations of Acrobat and Reader. If you want, you may also manually trigger the update early by opening the application and going to Help > Check for Updates.

More information about this release is here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/release-note/release-notes-acrobat-reader.html

Please try it out and let us know your feedback!

Thanks for your patience and support!

Rohit Anand

(Acrobat Desktop Team)

Report · Oct 18, 2019

Acrobat reader used to leave teh Find dialog open after it could not find any more inatances of the search item. This allowed one to just keep entering a return to keep the search going. after the last instance was found. ( the return when the no more instances found dialog opened would close the dialog and change the focus to the find dialog. Subsequent returns would repeat the find operation) I found this very useful. With DC the return to the no more instances dialog closes that dialog and also the find dialog. Thus requiring reopening the find dialog. Is there a preference item that would change the action back to the older action? I could use the search function but find shows much more of the text near the instances

Report · Oct 19, 2019