So many great suggestions here, all falling on def ears.
Adobe does not care, they just want their monthly subscription fee.
I work in the printing industry, with each passing year Acrobat moves away from my professional industry. Some of the Preflight tools are now painfully slow. The only innovation is in document management, proofing corporate communications and signing contracts. Adobe's true focus is Document Cloud, an enterprise document solutions money maker. That's why it's in the name Acrobat DC.

YES TO THIS. But sadly I think a Adobe just doesn't care.

Good luck, anonymous. This feature request has been "Under Review" for over 3 years. Given the number of votes and comments and hardly any response from Adobe, this feature request seems to have gone into a black hole.

Please give me the ability to chose exactly which buttons I have on my toolbar and where they are located. I want them to be in the order and placed where it is logical to me and what projects I'm working on.
Quick Tools:
- Might be useful if ALL actions were available, including the ones that are not listed under the various tool bars, for example send file by email.
- Needs to allow drag/drop and delete for the icons without going through the customize dialog.
Customize Quick Tools
- Allow addition of tools by double clicking on them as well as clicking on the plus sign;
- Allow deletion using keyboard.

* Give the option of removing the Share button that sends an adobe server link . Emailing files with or without encryption is my default. As several other commenters have noted, I need to be able to track what w documentation was sent when, and also do not want to send confidential files through Adobe.
* IF nothing else, could we at least have all the file menu tools together on the left hand side? It is illogical to split them off to the sides. With wider monitors the split means a lot more mouse movement.

I also wish there were more options for default view settings, in particular because my eyesight is bad and I wish I could increase the amount of screen real estate when opening the many pdfs I have to read for work. When you have a high volume of files to read, having to manually adjust each one so you can read it is very cumbersome and I'd like to know Adobe cares about people with limited eyesight over promoting its ecosystem. Very, very poor job so far. The greed is very apparent from the customer level.

"In continuation of my December 2020 comment, I am in favor of multiple tool bars, but I have worked around in a different way. In white area of toolbar, right click, in drop down list click customize quick tools. Select a feature you want, and add using +. On the tool bar ... when clicked shows your selected features. Clicking a feature will bring up corresponding tool bar for use. it would be nice to have customized tool bar, but this is better than nothing. I am not cheering Adobe for making us look for work around, but we have to adapt what we got."

Yes - you are correct - however the main problem is that the "share" button, the "provide feedback" button, the "help" button, the "notifications" and the "profile and settings" button CANNOT be hidden.

What's worse - adobe chooses not to refer to these as being "in" the toolbar - so if you ask how to get these off - they simply refer you to the process you state - which is of corse not to address the issue at all.

If we could "hide" these 5 fu<k!ng useless buttons, Adobe would be far more user-friendly - and able to share a screen with other applications without hiding the toolbar option that we DO use......

... but as adobe is full of non-thinking half-wits who blatantly CHOOSE to ignore simple customer comments and feedback - we are stuck with whatever some incompetant has decided we HAVE to pretend is a "feature"..........

In continuation of my December 2020 comment, I am in favor of multiple tool bars, but I have worked around in a different way. In white area of toolbar, right click, in drop down list click customize quick tools. Select a feature you want, and add using +. On the tool bar ... when clicked shows your selected features. Clicking a feature will bring up corresponding tool bar for use. it would be nice to have customized tool bar, but this is better than nothing. I am not cheering Adobe for making us look for work around, but we have to adapt what we got.

There is also the added problems of people using the forms differently than how you want them to.

For instance - I use Acrobat to draw up forms to get information from clients.

I prefer that my client email these completed forms back to me - not through adobe cloud or google cloud or whatever - I need a direct record of communications with my clients (as stipulated by Law in my industry) and email is the best way to do this.

However the "share" button is unfortunately visible on EVERY document.
...meaning i very opten have to get them to send it to me again.

If I'm not going to use something, or if I do not want "features" used - I should be able to hide them.

It just is NOT a hard ask.
It just is NOT a hard thing to make them "hide-able"
It WAS a stupid decision to make them "un-hide-able"

Cannot agree more. I'd been using an old version of Acrobat Pro that allowed COMPLETELY customized toolbars.... now that I've "upgraded" to a current version (which ain't cheap), I am quite frustrated at the wasted real estate for items I don't use as well as the inability to put the things I do use in the places I like. I don't see how removing user ability to customize is an "upgrade".

Adobe is on drugs since 20 years at least. There is no hope anymore.

Kiran L Bhayani,
"...change is always difficult. Let us breach our comfort zone and think out of box.
...once we explore options patiently things are better an nicer. "

- No offense, but we hardly need an Adobe cheerleader to tell users to just get over the change and move on, and tell us to use the woefully inadequate QuickTools, which has been addressed in this thread more than once. If people were happy with it, they wouldn't be complaining, and simply putting up probably isn't the best way to get you anything useful, ever.

Quick Tools has an extremely limited set of tools that are of any use - essentially it has only leftover buttons that are not already in other menus on the same toolbar. The stuff outside of Quick Tools is the real problem. E.g. right click to enable File Tools, Edit Tools, Navigation Tools, Display, etc. - a lot of those shortcuts are essential to display on the bar for easy navigation, and they take up most of the space on that bar, BUT those are not customizable i.e. cannot be arranged so that you can always view the most used ones on the left. Since those buttons already take most of the bar space for me, there's almost no space left for anything else I may find useful in QuickTools (definitely no space when I view a pdf on a half screen instead of full screen).
Also, ALL of the buttons are just too big, with lots of wasted space around and between them, and are also slow and not very responsive to mouse clicks. The buttons are also not well delimited, so sometimes it's difficult to tell if you've actually clicked on the button or on empty space.

So you see, Quick Tools may be a little more customizable than the rest of the toolbar, but all the essentials are elsewhere and already take all the space, so QT is almost useless. Suggesting to use Quick Tools just misses the mark, and is definitely not "thinking out of the box".

At a minimum Adobe should implement a standard configurable menu that you see in any other professional developer tool like Photoshop etc. where you can enable/disable/move around dockable panels. If BlueBeam has done that for their PDF editor, what does that tell you?

I totally agree and have already asked about this issue. I use a lot of tools, and I have the most essential as Quick Tools, accessible on the toolbar. However, most of them are hidden because of all the useless information Adobe automatically wants us to see on our toolbars. So instead of the toolbar helping me, it's mostly a shortcut to a continuous experience of inconvenience.

I'm ready to dump the toolbars altogether and add everything I need to quick access. But now that IT has me on this Cloud version, there are icons on the right that I can't get rid of and it's using prime real estate. Why hasn't Adobe switched to smaller icons yet?

Customizing quick tools is not enough, if there are many tools you go to frequently.

The problem is how many of the tool panes are fixed and not at the user's discretion. Some people may use them, but many power users won't, esp. since common commands already have keyboard shortcuts.

I have been following comments on menu customization issue for some time. Being acrobat user from version 4, i also found it difficult to be without a full set of tools on menu. I share the frustration of several users, but change is always difficult. Let us breach our comfort zone and think out of box.
Here is my take - on the white area, quick tools bar, below Home and Tools in gray, right click. Look for customize quick tools, click on that, there is a drop down list, Highlight tool you would like to see frequently. Then on the right side + sign with up arrow. Click on it. The desired tool will appear on quick tool bar. You can move tools as you like and also add divider if you like. The change is always difficult, but once we explore options patiently things are better an nicer. May be support peopl should be patient and explain the process. Good luck and best wishes

https://confluence.royalroads.ca/display/ITKNOW/Adobe+PDF+Error:+A+number+is+out+of+range

DC Sucks balls hard.
I wish I could fire CEO Shantanu Narayen
This guy is bitching around with worldwide users in the creative industry since 2007.
One of the richest people has no control over his company, while underpaid clerks sitting in support centers across India with no option to really help when serious issues occure that are obviously issues by design and/or sloppy programming.
Developers at Adobe are educated fools.
I'm burning.

Would love to be able to move the tool bar/pane (RHP) to the bottom of the screen/window. I read pdfs with my monitor in portrait mode and still want to be able to comment/highlight in them without sacrificing width. Thank you.

So far I cannot agree more with this thread. THIS ADOBE PRO DC SUCKS. How in the world do you guys not allow us to make the tool bar more customizable and fit more actual things we want to use up there quickly. Not 3 layers of drop downs to find it. I DEFINITELY do not need half of the tool bar taken up with "Home" "Tools" and "Document" that I NEVER USE!!!! Let me delete those so I can have my other items. Also, allow for like 3 rows so we can have quick access to things! Adobe Pro 8 was seriously SOOOO MUCH BETTER. So mad I upgraded to this POS.

---Adobe responded · August 31, 2017
---Thanks for your valuable feedback. We have taken a note of it. Will keep you posted.

Hey Adobe,
It's 2020--ANY UPDATES???
Pffffft

On August 27, 2020, Anonymous wrote:

> "'PRO' does not = Tablet user." ...

> ... Look for alternatives - and post them here....

Although my perpetual-license version of Acrobat XI saves the interface frustrations and stiff ongoing license fees of DC, *both* versions have limitations that stopped me cold in attempts to edit a 200-page book - one that needed mostly minor - but important - tweaks. ABBYY Finereader (versions 14 and 15) likewise failed at what I needed to do; and although Bluebeam Revu could do the job, its complexity and high cost were more than I was prepared to bear.

Enter PDF-XChange PRO + Enhanced OCR Plugin, a highly powerful, yet inexpensive, perpetual-license program that solved my longstanding problems with this book - literally within minutes of opening the file. Depending on the job, I still use Acrobat XI and FineReader 14 and 15, but XChange PRO remains my go-to Swiss Army knife for PDF editing. and publishing (http://www.tracker-software.com)

Definitely YMMV.