Remove right bar in Adobe Reader X 10.1.7

[Perkins_Clemmins]

Hi,

after the installation of the Reader X a new tool bar has arrived on the right side. Earlier it was possible to collapse the left toolbar, but this one seems impossible to collapse or remove.

Is there a Windows registry value or a setting in the program which can be used?

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

Mouse click on Tools.

[Perkins_Clemmins]

Facepalm!

[C_F_McBlob]

I found that if I open a PDF, close the tools panel and the close the PDF and Reader, it doesn't open when I launch Reader next time.

[ErnieGilman]

NOT ANSWERED YET.

I just did exactly what Mike M said: I opened one file. It opened with that damn column. I clicked on Tools once, and the column changed. I clicked on it again and the column disappeared. I then closed the Reader (no other files were open). Upon reopening the same file, the column once more opened.

I'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO NOTE THAT HAVING THIS COLUMN NEVER NEVER OPEN UNLESS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED, OR HAVING ITS OPENING CLEARLY (I SAID CLEARLY) DENOTED IN PREFERENCES, WOULD KEEP ME FROM HATING ADOBE.

[shintapt]

Same problem here, i want to open a document and dont have the tool panel always.

i just want to read the document.

every time i open adobe i need to close it, in exemple (shift +F4) or go to view/show-hide/tool panel.

i just want this panel allways closed. is that too much to ask?!

[Bernd Alheit]

Yes, you can ask. But the answer is: no.

[ErnieGilman]

I cannot help thinking that software "features" such as that bar have been implemented by junior engineers who think that something can be a feature but have so little experience in the world that they do not recognize they are forcing on us something needed only a tiny percentage of the time. Looked at a bit differently, it might be helpful, but it would be even more helpful to be able to CHOOSE not to have it.

I used to use AOL software. I always wanted to be up to date. But the idiots at AOL thought the proper thing to do would be to initiate upgrades when I tried to sign off. This happened repeatedly: I got up in the morning, did my email business, went to log off and leave for work, then was stuck either killing the power to my computer or waiting up to a half hour for an update. THEY had an idea of how to do something and THEY were too stupid to recognize they might not have the best idea, so they forced me to waste time or reorganize my life just for their damn update.

Actually, a more important issue is brought up by ITgreybeard: do ALL Adobe programs do exactly this under exactly this circumstance? Are there variances from program to program in how to use similarly named functions? Are there similar functions that have different names in different Adobe products? I'm off to waste some time in the land of a "software sucks" google search....

[stevec5088]

"Mouse click on Tools"

Now THAT is intuitive!  (NOT). 

I've been hating that useless side bar for many months.  How hard would it have been to put a little "x" button to close it?

[Bernd Alheit]

‌I don't know.

[pwillener]

Tools, as well as Fill & Sign and Comment, are "toggle" buttons: you click on it; the content appears, you click again: it disappears.

It has been that way for many, many Reader versions.

[ITgreybeard]

In advance, please excuse the use of emoticons.

The interface is unintuitive to the uninitiated.   And "It has been that way ..." reminds me of the "secret handshake" of Fred Flintstone's Lodge. 

Those three words/phrases are shown neither as icons nor as buttons, so do not follow GUI standards for available actions. And while tool tips appear above them upon suitable hovering, the tips are little more than a repeat of the words/phrases, and do not indicate the opening of a pane/frame. Nor is there context-sensitive help either on the words or the panes. The panes themselves are not labeled, nor does hovering render a tool tip, so they remain anonymous. And as indicated above, an would have helped to close -- though it would not contribute to understanding.

Like too many other software developers, Adobe concentrates on adding functionality without making the product more usable in either its present form or its next generation.   This long-time software guy (me/myself/I) laments such adolescent focus.

Unfortunately for Adobe, the situation contributes to annoying, frustrating and repelling newcomers who would like to go to the next level without requisite total technological immersion.   Could a person not just go ahead and learn such an 'easy' tradition? Of course, but does this tradition apply similarly to all Adobe products? Must a person learn such idiosyncrasies about all software products and suites from all manufacturers?  The casual user simply has not enough time to do so for the multiplicity of packages used over their many generations on multiple platforms.

Or so I perceive.

With regards.