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April 14, 2015
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How do I remove the right hand pane in Reader DC (LOCKED)

  • April 14, 2015
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How do I remove the right hand pane (export pdf, create pdf, edit pdf, etc.) on Reader DC?  It takes up a quarter of my screen and I never use that stuff!

Thanks for your help!

    Correct answer Allta Media

    The July 2015 Acrobat & Reader DC update introduced a UI change for the right-hand pane. Now when you launch Acrobat/Reader DC, it will retain the last state (collapsed or open) of the tools in the Right-Hand Pane. You can find more details on this page

    Acrobat Help | New features summary.

    Edit: Just to clarify in Reader DC, it's a Preference located under Edit > Preferences > Documents "Open Tool pane for each document".

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    Anonymous
    June 15, 2016

    Great fix TMMCENTYRE!

    Adobe, you should create a R&D division at your company. Obviously your research would have shown people want choices and they do not like this side bar. Yes, your product is free (and thank you for that!), and it is YOURS…but if you force changes like this, all I have to do is move to another product.

    You have an overall good product, but I need my screen to NOT be filled with items that I do not use. If I want it, I will load the tool bar.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    June 15, 2016

    Pity that you didn't read my message immediately above yours. No workaround is necessary if you are using the July 2015 version of the program, or any later one, because the problem was solved by Adobe.

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    Gucek
    Participant
    May 19, 2016

    it is truly unbelievable what a piece of garbage Adobe Reader is now.. :/

    (and I don't even about those moronic tablet-finger-menus here..) :/

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    May 19, 2016

    And how does your message relate with the removal of the right hand panel in Reader DC?

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    vK26740098
    Participant
    May 10, 2016

    Good news. There is a global solution.

    AS someone just stated earlier, in Reader DC, it's a Preference located under Edit > Preferences > Documents "Open Tool pane for each document".

    Voila!!

      Claudio González
      Claudio González
      Legend
      May 10, 2016

      The "news" were first posted in this thread on July 15, 2015, so they are not so new...

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      Anonymous
      April 21, 2016

      Like many others, there is still sour in our mouths of Adobe treatment of its product users. Why force things like this down our throats when the user could easily find it when they need it! Wake up Adobe, see what's happened to Microsoft!

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      acidesign
      Participant
      January 20, 2016

      i simply deleted Viewer.aapp since the right hand pane in Reader DC was useless anyway.

      seems that adode recruited some children to design this hideous UI, even the huge icons on Tools are completely pathetic. the all thing looks like a bad conversion from an phone app.

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      Brad_Smith_Site
      Participant
      November 26, 2015

      Very very bad design. It's one thing to close the stupid tools pane, but every time I try to scroll I land up opening the panel again because it's right by the scroll bar. It's obnoxious at best and affects me constantly. Please have people test the software before releasing it to the public. New version should improve the software, not push  a person to want to jump out of a building head first.

        gudguy1a
        gudguy1a
        Participating Frequently
        November 26, 2015

        @Brad Smith - yep, makes us want to go and use things like other free PDF s/w or Cute PDF or .....

        gudguy1a
        gudguy1a
        Participating Frequently
        November 22, 2015

        Actually, just uncheck that box in "Edit preferences" - then when you open up another PDF,

        --- click on the little arrow of the tool pane (half way down on the "left side" of the tools pane) - to collapse the tools pane. You can open it up again at will after that...

        Next time you open docs in Adobe Reader aka DC (2015.009.20069), the tools pane will be closed.

        Worked for me at any rate...

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        Zevet
        Participant
        November 20, 2015

        Hello,

        open Regedit and change this key from 1 to 0 :

        [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\AVGeneral]

        "bExpandRHPInViewer"=dword:00000000

        and this one from 0 to 1 :

        [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\AVGeneral]

        "bRHPSticky"=dword:00000001


        Hope this help!

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          steinage
          Participant
          November 20, 2015

          Thank you!

          This workaround will solve my problem.

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          steinage
          Participant
          November 19, 2015

          Does anybody know if there is a way to deploy this software WITHOUT this setting "Open Tool pane for each document"?

          I have looked at the "Acrobat Customization Wizard DC", but this option isn't included (yet?).

          Claudio González
          Claudio González
          Legend
          November 19, 2015

          For those who haven't seen this news: Hide the Tools panel permanently in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC

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            steinage
            Participant
            November 20, 2015

            This was perhaps not intended as an reply to my question, but if it was, it is an "invalid answer".

            I would like to deploy this software to our many hundreds of users, and do NOT want to support everyone asking how to get rid of this Tools panel.

            And the statement that it remembers the last state is also incorrect in my case.

            The Tools panel is open on every single PDF document I open, no exeption, unless I go into settings and remove "Open Tool pane for each document".

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            Rumboogy
            Participant
            November 10, 2015

            I found a simple solution to the problem.  Uninstall "Adobe Reader DC" and re-install the old "Adobe Reader".  If you don't have the old version you can get it from here  Adobe - Adobe Reader : For Macintosh.  I can understand that Adobe wants to promote their new features, but if they get too pushy about it then I will just stick to the older version.

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