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JoonasXX
JoonasXX
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May 17, 2019
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The new floating toolbar for commenting actions needs to go.

  • May 17, 2019
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The "Commenting experience improvements" in May 2019 release of Acrobat DC introduced the following change: when the user "selects" some text with the left mouse button a black floating toolbar for commenting actions always appears even if the user doesn't want to make comments. How can I prevent that floating toolbar from appearing it's quite distracting?

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Correct answer Meenakshi Negi

Hi All,

We have released an update today for Adobe Acrobat 2015, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat DC in which you can hide the toolbar using a newly added preference. By default, the toolbar is enabled. Check the screenshot below:

This update will be automatically pushed to all existing installations of Acrobat and Reader. If you want, you may also manually trigger the update early by opening the application and going to Help > Check for Updates.

You may refer to the following link to check the latest versions available. Release Notes | Adobe Acrobat, Reader

For more details on the new update, please refer to the following help document What's new in Adobe Acrobat DC

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Meenakshi

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Tony25488597vjgs
Participant
August 2, 2022

Is there a way to edit the tools that are shown in this popup?

 

BWANDII
BWANDII
Participant
June 19, 2019

You would hope as a company they would be on top of something like this but at the end of the day the product has already been purchased and we're gonna use it regardless cause we don't really have another option. It's not like it's only the ten or so people on this thread either, I'm representing around 40 other redactors who are dealing with the same problem and I know there's a lot more than just us that as being slowed down by this.

Meenakshi Negi
Meenakshi NegiCorrect answer
Legend
August 13, 2019

Hi All,

We have released an update today for Adobe Acrobat 2015, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat DC in which you can hide the toolbar using a newly added preference. By default, the toolbar is enabled. Check the screenshot below:

This update will be automatically pushed to all existing installations of Acrobat and Reader. If you want, you may also manually trigger the update early by opening the application and going to Help > Check for Updates.

You may refer to the following link to check the latest versions available. Release Notes | Adobe Acrobat, Reader

For more details on the new update, please refer to the following help document What's new in Adobe Acrobat DC

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Meenakshi

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    Anonymous
    June 5, 2019

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    Can somebody tell me how to disable this floating piece of junk ?

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      laural75317968
      Participating Frequently
      June 5, 2019

      That's what we're all hoping Adobe does.

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        Anonymous
        May 23, 2019

        Slows me down too, popup box in my way

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          mikem30577428
          Participating Frequently
          May 20, 2019

          This new feature is a complete disruption for my workflow in Acrobat, as it's even worse when trying to select comment boxes to copy text from for making edits to documents. Previously a simple double click was all that was needed. Now you have to try to dance your cursor around that arbitrary garbage can icon that pops up right where you click half the time.

          Is there any way to turn this off? Because if there isn't then there needs to be. It may be well-intentioned but for my workflow it is simply useless and annoying. Not an improvement at all.

            Arpit_Agarwal
            Adobe Employee
            Arpit_Agarwal
            Adobe Employee
            May 20, 2019

            Hi Joonas,

            This is the new feature we have introduced in Acrobat. Whenever user selects the text floating toolbar will appear which will give some commenting tools option in it. This will prevent user from going into the commenting tool to use those options. Could you please tell what issue you are facing these tools ? so that I can help you better.

            What operation you are trying to perform after selecting the text. Floating toolbar is not totally for commenting. You can Copy the text or can goto Edit Tool for any text modification.

            try67
            Community Expert
            try67Community Expert
            Community Expert
            May 20, 2019

            This should be a general lesson for the Adobe developers: When adding a new feature to an application which the users have not encountered before or expect, and which changes the default behavior of the application, ALWAYS add an option (in the Preferences, or in the feature itself, not via the Registry) to disable it!

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              Anonymous
              June 14, 2019

              Is there a registry entry that will turn off this black box. 

              If there is no way to turn off this black box, has someone found an alternate PDF program.  I do not have time for this worthless box to distract from my work.

              Please Adobe, reply.

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