Hiding the tool bar / showing page thumbnails by default

[Gil UR]

Hi there

Does anyone know how can the right side tool bar be hidden by default on Acrobat DC?

Likewise, how can the page thumbnails show up everytime a PDF is opened?

Many thanks

Gil

[AshuMittal]

Hi Stuart,

Did you follow the steps shared in the What's New document: What's new in Adobe Acrobat DC

Can you share what product and version you are on?

Thanks,

-ashu

[Guest]

This only works if you want to KEEP the thumbnails visible.

I wish to minimise the left bar, including the icons, when I open a PDF in Reader.

[AshuMittal]

Hi @Jurasik,

The Page Thumbnails view does not open by default. Does it happen with all PDFs or some specific files?

Thanks,

-ashu

[trungnghiatn]

Only two steps, you can hide tools pane forever

Step 1: Go to Preferences (Edit >> Preferences or press Ctrl + K). At the left column, click on Documents. You see the contents at the right pane. Uncheck "Open tools pane for each documents". Press OK and exit Preferences windows.

Step 2: Go to View >> Show/Hide. Uncheck Tools Pane. Done. You never see that pane

Good luck

[amyt4977]

Thank you – this is done! Now I wonder if there is a way to have the Navigation Bar, therefore the thumbnails, always OPEN when I open a PDF……………ideas on that one?

Thanks again, Amy

[trungnghiatn]

I don't know how to do that. Sometime, you open a .pdf file that include bookmark, Adobe reader will show automatical all bookmark at Navigation Bar.

[amyt4977]

Thanks for the response…………

[briand27936898]

I'm replying to vote for the removal or at least the option to toggle the sidebar. It takes up a ton of space and it's full of options I will never click. This is Adobe *Reader* so please let me just read.

[Sulaco1337]

Does anyone have any more advice on the thumbnail view issue? It is a pain to keep having to bring it up every time I open a new PDF. Thanks!

[Guest]

CALL TO ADOBE:

NEED:

Default view capabilities to open to see page thumbnails w/doc.

Also, IMHO, the bates-labeling has become a nuisance tool when it was previously a godsend.

Why do techies try to "fix" things that aren't broken?  Wish I'd kept earlier version, but as a result of your READER not playing nice with Pro, and all the Electronic Records service providers playing footsies with both... "upgraded".  Any comments, Adobe personnel?

[AshuMittal]

Hi,

You can configure thumbnails to open on a per document basis, such that thumbnails will appear on subsequent accesses of the file. Go to Edit > Preferences > Documents and check "Restore last view settings when reopening documents".

Also, please send across details about improvements to Bates Numbering functionality by visiting: www.adobe.com/go/wish

Thanks,

-ashu

[Guest]

Thanks; I'd figured the per document thumbnail feature, but wanted it globally to open all that way...

Appreciate your response!!!

[Marlama]

Previous versions of Acrobat (not addressing Reader here) had the word "Tools" on the top of the right panel.  Clicking that opened or closed the panel- simple.  I have to check accessibility for files in Acrobat and use this panel every day, however I also had issues trying to figure out how to close it when I needed the real estate.  I appreciate being able to use <shift><F4> now, but why remove the feature at all, and then bring it back with a set of keystrokes instead of the simple click I have used for years?

[AshuMittal]

Hi Marlama‌,

You can still collapse the Right Hand Panel using a single click in Acrobat DC (just click on the small triangle in the RHP strip). Moreover, Acrobat DC remembers your chosen state for RHP and stays expanded/collapsed across sessions unless toggled again.

Thanks,

-ashu