How to enable scroll bar?

[EQuijano]

Acrobat Reader 11 (XI) : No scroll bar on the right, and I cannot find the option in "preferences" to enable it. Annoying to have to "grab and pull up" all the time. How do I enable it?

Thanks.

[Steve Cordero]

Are you on a Mac or Windows?

[EQuijano]

Windows 8.1

[Steve Cordero]

Is this a Touch Device like a tablet or Surface Pro?

[EQuijano]

Kind-of, but not really. It's technically a Dell laptop, but it's one of their 2-in-1 models, the kind you can flip the screen behind the keyboard and use "tablet-style," but it's a laptop.

[Steve Cordero · Accepted solution]

It might be "Touch Mode". 

1.  Go to Edit>Preferences>General>Basic Tools section.

2.  Select Never in the Touch Mode pop-up menu

3.  Click OK in the Preferences window.

See if that makes a difference

[EQuijano]

GENIUS!! That was simple. I saw that, but didn't know what that meant.

THANKS! 

[dmmlnc]

another resounding THANK YOU!!!

[louisf32275943]

Thanks. THis solution is exactly what I needed. It is still annoying as heck that a visible scroll bar is not the default; what was Adobe thinking? 🙂

[mikeruth12]

WOW HOW DID YOU FIND THIS I WOULD OF BEEN SCROLLING FOR LIFE!!!! THANK YOU

[Paraneslia]

Thank you for this solution.  It is appreciated.

[waihua]

hello, How about macbook pro?

[wrkmpls]

Thank you EQuijano!  Thank you NOT Adobe for burying this setting and making it as NON-INTUITIVE as you possibly could.

[Winifred5EEC]

How do you do this on a MacPro laptop?  I have tried everything. Including your suggestion above. There is no Never in the Touch Mode pop-up option.

[komeil23448607l984]

just disable touch mode in

view > show/hide > toolbaritems > touch mode

[Vinita25230440q284]

Thank you so much for this. Couldn't find it anywhere else. It worked for me!

[Heather25808691zl38]

I set the Touch Mode to "Never" but the scroll bar still isn't showing up on my end 😞 

[K29136158upbi]

Some docs now have a vertical scroll bar, others do not.  It is maddening.  

[SQLRV]

Thank you!! This drove me bonkers until I found this post!!