How can I hide the Tools Pane when opening a pdf in Acrobat?

[jaystar1945]

Whenever I open an existing pdf document, by default Acrobat always includes the right-hand side "tools pane", which takes up about 1/3rd of the window pane.  To minimise it, I have to always go to >>View,>>Show/Hide,>>Tools Pane>> then toggle/click.  Or on my laptop shift+Fn Key+F4.

How can I change this to not include the Tools Pane in full and just have it in its minimised form, like icons on the right-hand side, which is how it shows when I manually hide it.

[CVHManchester]

Why do they do this to us?  Perhaps because we are just the users, so not important within the Adobe programming kindergarden that likes playing.

[Dzt user]

Well, it's a joke that ultimately, the old acrobat reader is really the way to go. I don't see any benefits to using the new Acrobat Reader at all. They have to fix this...

[Shawn34418404gzvv]

Click "Menu" at the top left.  About 2/3 of the way down, "Disable new Acrobat Reader". Seems to fix the issue on my end. You can re-enable the new reader by clicking "View" (when running the old version), and Enable the new reader. 

[Katherine Hol34428490zk86]

Thank you, this worked!

[SARFARAZ311327402lon]

Permanently close the left-hand side, "All tools" pane in Adobe Reader

In the Preferences window, select the Documents category.
Check the box that says Remember current state of Tools Pane.
This setting ensures that the tools pane will remain minimized if it was minimized the last time you used Adobe Acrobat Reader.

It will work 100%.

Thanks,

Sarfaraz Mohammed