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. 😃

C

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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Oh wow, the floating toolbar occasionally disappears when my Acrobat Pro is in Read Mode!

I haven't found any documentation on this, so it's just guesswork on my part... but my best current guess is that moving the pesky floating toolbar to some other location on the screen (while in Read Mode) starts a half-second timer. If you don't click on any of its tools, it soon disappears. If you want it to reappear, you can either hover your mouse (or other pointing device) over the area on the screen where the floating toolbar had most-recently been displayed, or (if your short-term memory is unreliable but you still have some ability to "learn new tricks" 😉 you could type ctrl-h twice (to exit and then re-enter Read Mode).

I suppose this behaviour would seem more intuitive to me, if I were running Acrobat on a droidphone.

(As another grumble... I wish I were able to edit my recent postings. Other blogsites allow this but not Acrobate Community -- as far as I can tell! Maybe I'm not intuiting the location of its Edit affordance?)