Can I remove or dock a floating toolbar?

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January 25, 2024
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In DC Reader, there is a toolbar that I've circled in red that is always visible. Can I at least dock it somewhere, although I'd prefer to remove it from site. Is this possible?

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Correct answer Monsieur123

Hi! I also find that floating toolbar extremely annoying.

The only solution I finded was to get back to the previous Acrobat version. You can do that going to the hamburger menu ==> Disable New Acrobat.

In that version, the floating bar is just part of a menu and doesn't interrupt your vision when you have, for example, 100% zoomed in the document.

I hope it helps. 😃

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cthombor

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Here's a workaround you might try.
1. File / View / Read Mode
2. Your Acrobat installation might now be in a display mode where the floating toolbar has a "collapse button"

3. Clicking on the "collapse button" should hide that pesky toolbar.

It's documented at Viewing PDFs and viewing preferences "last updated on Dec 18, 2024". A note at the top of this page warns: "If the screen shown here doesn’t match your product interface, select help for your current experience." This workaround is working for me today in my Acrobat Pro "Continuous Release 2004.005.20320 | 64-bit". YMMV.

I'm calling this a "workaround" because pushing around the floating toolbar can still be quite an annoyance when I'm editing a PDF document. That said, my 71-year-old wetware is now slowly adapting to the demands of Acrobat's "new, more intuitive product experience"... my next little UI-adaptation challenge being to learn that typing ctrl-h will cause my Acrobat Pro installation to enter View Mode!

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cthombor

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Apologies! I hadn't adequately tested my workaround before posting the above. To my surprise: the "Collapse Button" doesn't hide the floating toolbar in my version of Acrobat Pro. Instead, further testing (and a more careful reading of Adobe's documentation) has revealed that clicking on this affordance does not actually "collapse" the toolbar. Instead: this affordance causes my installation to drop out of View Mode, with the floating toolbar appearing somewhere else on the screen. Sigh.