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chriss70743742
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January 21, 2019
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How to display File Name instead of Title

  • January 21, 2019
  • 9 replies
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Hi everybody,

I was surprised seeing that Adobe Reader DC is showing the "title" of a PDF in the top bar (above the menu). But actually, nobody is using this functionality when creating PDFs out of Word for instance. (Used Version: 2019.10.20069)

How can I change it back in Adobe Reader DC to just see the "filename" of the currently opened document?

Thanks, guys, for your thoughts and help

Cheers, Chris

    Correct answer rheakoch

    Don't know if anybody said it already, didn't read all responses, but this is the sollution.  Go to edit, open preferences, Choose documents and under open settings click "Always use filename as document title".  

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    Peter Seah
    New Participant
    January 16, 2025

    The case as me, I donot need any Title, just filename will be more useful.,

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    Blissful_photo7865
    New Participant
    January 6, 2025

    To remove the title (and other personal info) from the file, if you only have the FREE version of Adobe (Reader):

     

    Navigate to where the file is located on your computer.

    Right click the file

    Select Properties

    Click the Details tab

    At the bottom select Remove Properties and Personal Information

    Choose if you want it to create new copy of the file with this removed or do it to the current file (I tested it with a copy first)

     

    Hope this helps someone!

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    Christopher37531147yekk
    New Participant
    May 21, 2024

    It's annoying, and I'm not computer savy. None of the suggestions here worked for me.  I went around it an old fashioned way, but I only had to do it for one document.   I printed out the document, then scanned it as a PDF,  and renamed it.  As a result, the file and tab matched.    

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    sajit63
    Known Participant
    March 19, 2024

    I see the same issue with Foxit also. 

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    sajit63
    Known Participant
    March 19, 2024

    I am not able to edit the previous reply.

    I think Foxit has the answer, https://kb.foxit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061571672-Why-cannot-get-file-name-displaying-when-open-a-pdf-file-but-only-file-title

    But I cannot check it off. There must be a similar option in Acrobat.

    rheakoch
    rheakochCorrect answer
    New Participant
    November 10, 2021

    Don't know if anybody said it already, didn't read all responses, but this is the sollution.  Go to edit, open preferences, Choose documents and under open settings click "Always use filename as document title".  

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      jenniferw4052293
      New Participant
      November 17, 2021

      I did this but it isn't working. Does this only work when creating a pdf? If so, is there a way to "create" a pdf that's already created so it will use the filename as the document title?

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      First5EE7
      New Participant
      February 15, 2021

      @adobe, please remove this double naming of filename AND title, it creates so much confusion. And what is very irritating is that most people do not know about it or DO know, like me, but do not take the effort to populate both, resulting in NOT knowing which file is which when several tabs are open simultaneously ; or having funny names, one of my contractor had MOST OF his documents titled "financial template": who is the bozo: them, or you?

      Or put BY DEFALUT the filename inside the title, still keeping the possibility to retitle manually

      Adobe Acrobat Reader v2021.001.20135 is its name.

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        natrab
        New Participant
        April 8, 2020

        Adobe is aware of this and they say they will fix it if enough people request it. Please go to this link and vote for the feature: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/36475057-add-option-to-use-file-name-instead-of-title-in-th

          try67
          try67
          Community Expert
          January 21, 2019

          This is a setting of the file, not the application. You can change how it behaves in Acrobat (or maybe in Word, before exporting it), but not in Reader.

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          dwight95
          New Participant
          April 5, 2020

          This is really annoying in a lot of cases. For example, all the credit-card billing PDFs I download from my bank have the same "document title".  Obviously I have no control over the PDF creation. So when I have 2 or 3 of them open, picking the one I currently want to view via Alt-tab or whatever is impossible.  I don't see why there isn't a Preference setting for viewing title vs filename.

            try67
            try67
            Community Expert
            April 5, 2020

            There is, but it's a property of the file, and Reader can't set it. You should ask your bank to change it on their end when creating the files.

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            Brainiac
            January 21, 2019

            Reader has done this for more than 20 years. If there is a title it wins. Many people quite like it. But apparently you can stop Word filling in the title.

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