Hide 'All Tools' Pane permenatly 2023

[Toke28748572o2wo]

How can users permanently hide the 'All Tools' pane? 

Older guides do not work. 

Using a free version. 

Please don't force trail periods and pop ups on your uses 

[Mech36273331wqi5]

Great.... now that annoying panel on left is gone, annoying panel on right takes over the job. GG

[Suzanne33814649mgvq]

I can't go back to a previous version because I just got another PC this week. So I am going to switch to Foxit Reader because I get frustrated by Adobe. 

[@SM]

Try change in Preference > Documents

Tick "Remember last state of the All tools pane when opening document".

[Suzanne33814649mgvq]

It only helps if you had the older version installed, my surprise of this annoying feature came to me when if got a new laptop. So the Reader was also new installed. Terrible.

[Dávid337299438caw]

Wth, you know that people have to work with this. I hope someone updates this forum for you with a toolbar that takes up half your textbox and forces you to close it every time you want to post something here...

[Luise34611930lbl3]

Hi Akanchha,

terrible design. Makes Adobe unuseable when needing to open many PDFs. Adobe has really not changed the design helpfully over the last years unfortunately, it is more cumbersome now, than it was a few years back.

Best,

Luise 

[Jarek34741034u61o]

Adobe, are you nuts or what?? I am going to uninstall "new Adobe Reader" immediately! What the f..k

[Omer An]

I stopped using Adobe Products after reading this comment.

[TheGalantMAN]

"the functionality to hide or remove it from the Home view permanently is not possible."
Then why is it still in the preferences to this day? Oh let me guess, because this way it may look as if Adobe didn't really try to remove it intentionally, the user is free to speculate that it's an unfortunate problem just on their end, hence they would not get upset at Adobe and they'd eventually buy the subscription or at least continue to use it. While if it was straight up removed, it would look for what it is.

[freedom51187]

Restore the feature... it wastes too much time to close it everytime I open a document... but half the time I feel like that is what you people want... inefficiency and complications 😞

[Suzanne33814649mgvq]

Not upvoted this message, more like downvote but that is not possible. The design behavior you are talking about is on purpose so people have the click away the popup, it is very very annoying because if you open another pdf page it will popup again so every document even if you opened already a document. Very bad, Foxit reader much better then this reader. 

[Binoy22462746ggwa]

There is only one solution available which is "got to old UI". Then follow the method available for old UI. Thanks.

[cjsawaia]

it worked for me... running the latest version and using the "old" interface. Now the "remember tool pane state" flag works

[Alberto32957509o5p4]

Edit--> Preferences --> Documents --> Open Settings

Note to myself and everybody here...

[Gauthier23226024hmbv]

Good point, I didn't know it was possible to revert to old UI. Besides this bug, this avoid a couple other regressions of the new UI like undifferentiated title bar color between active and inactive window...

[Kim299355837o53]

Hi

This was annoying me on the version I user at work.  I found the answer was to tick a box under the Accessibility settings under Preferences.  'Always use page layout style'.

[CDinside]

Which one?  I tried some but no result. Please give more details.

[AkanchhaS]

@CDinside 

On the New UI of Acrobat, navigate to View>Disable New Acrobat. Once reverted to the old UI then, navigate to 

Acrobat Reader>Edit >Preferences>General> Documents> Check "Remember current state of toolpane">OK then Hide tool pane to keep it close for next time. 

Thanks,

Akanchha 

[cgidude]

Thanks, that worked.

Once again Adobe embarasses themselves by thinking they have a clue what designers want and forcing functionality changes on people which are widely disliked.

This reminds me of when they removed the Line tool's pixel functionality in Photoshop and after six months of complaints from the big studios finally changed it back.

[Elias31436050ahs3]

This worked... finally!!! Adobe wants to pressure us into clicking in that sweet "Free 7-Day Trial" for functionality only major firms use for legal documentation.

[Joanne3102227938vq]

Many thanks, it worked 

[Scott29053184hmh8]

This worked. Forcing the Tools Pane always open on the *new* Acrobat is a horrible idea.

[MattyMax]

The only reason I've ever used Acrobat Reader is for its simplicity. Having to close the Tools Pane every single time I open a PDF is easily enough to get me to use a different PDF reader. Such an annoyance.

[azelayah]

Thanks. 
Disabled New Acrobat and I am back to normal (I had already disabled the tool pane in the "old" Acrobat)

[Trixi0815]

thanks for the hint! I'm back to the previous version util Adobe enables to permamently remove that annoying tools panel