How do I keep the Task Panel closed when I open a pdf?

[airycat]

I am going through a thousand plus pdf files, copying and pasting info onto a spread sheet, and it really slows me down to have to close the right side Task Panel for each one.  The job is boring enough without having it slowed, and it really breaks my rhythm.  I have to be able to see what I need to copy  and a view less than 75% starts is difficult for me. Auto sizing with the panel is no more than 50% and locked in to 75% a third of my document is blocked. I'd just like to close it once and not have to close it for every single pdf. Is it possible? Every search I've done tells me how to close the Tools Panel, which already stays closed.

TIA

~Faith

[Amal.]

Hi Faith

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described you want to keep the Task Panel closed when opening the PDFs

Please check out the steps shared in the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/disable-right-hand-pane-in-acrobat-reader.html and see if that works for you.

Regards

Amal

[airycat]

Thank you, but this works only for the Tools Panel on the left. I've checked this several times. The right panel is the one I'm trying to keep closed. I can't even find any reference anywhere to the Task Panel, and know what it's called only because after I close it, there's a click to "Hide the Task Panel."

[Test Screen Name]

You should be able to close the right pane to a narrow strip with just one click. (Adobe call it the Task Pane not the Task Panel - searching for Panel may be less successful).

[airycat · Accepted solution]

Apparently, this needs a computer restart (at least sometimes). I tried it several times and it didn't work. Today however, after having restarted my computer, the panel remains closed. Computer stuff is so weird!

Thank you.