Making the selection tool default in Adobe Reader DC

[petrarca]

Even though I click the selection tool, every time I open Adobe Reader DC, it reverts back to the hand tool. When I am viewing pdfs in Firefox and I switch to a different tab from the one that has the pdf, the cursor becomes a flashing hand tool. I was once able to get around this issue and make the selection tool default, but I no longer remember how I did it. Does someone have a solution for this issue? If I make the hand tool selection text and images, it still makes the cursor become a flashing hand tool when I am in Firefox and on a different tab from the one containing the pdf. I am using Win 10. This is very annoying because I often use the cursor to highlight and copy text and use the arrow keys to scroll, making the hand tool largely redundant. If there is a solution to this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Eve37099392lufs]

Finally got it to work thank you Alex and others. For people still strugling, I suggest you check/uncheck "Always display the keyboar...

[Cathy16E5]

This was driving me a bit crazy because I, too, wanted my documents to launch with the selection tool enabled, not the hand cursor. I tried all of the suggested setting changes but nothing worked. Then, I noticed that when I first launched documents, it was in text selection mode for about a second before switching to the hand cursor. I uninstalled and re-installed, and on first launch noticed a brief onscreen message that said something about touch mode being turned on. I use a laptop with a touch screen, so I guess it auto-detects that and defaults to some mode for that. Here's what finally resolved the text selection issue: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/disable-touch-mode-in-acrobat.html

I had to turn off touch mode, to get rid of the hand cursor.

[Ofira22638561hz0h]

THANK YOU, 
that was it. it solved that annoying hand tool

[Michelle24200257oqwv]

This is what did it for me! I've never changed this setting though, as I don't use a touch screen, so it's weird this was set to "always" use touch mode. 

[tingting_2327]

I'm having the same problem as you, except that 1) uncheck all the 3 options that starts with "Make Hand tool...." in General setting and 2) uncheck always display the keyboard selection cursor in Aaccessibility, please try to change the "Touch Mode" to "Never”.

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