My Adobe is missing the "Always use filename as document title" option under Edit>Preferences>Open Settings. How do I get that option to appear?

Used to always show file name and suddenly only shows document title. Changing for each individual document saved is ridiculous. Why is there no longer an option to set the default as file name???

It is difficult to figure out which file is which when viewing multiple files with the same TITLE. The person using the Adobe Acrobat Pro (64-bit) is powerless to change the title.

PLEASE provide a global preference / setting in the Adobe Acrobat Pro (64-bit) ,preferences to have it use the file name all the time.

Return option to use file name instead of TITLE in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
this is not user friendly when we used files name in tabs, and now you 'improved' functionality forcing users to use title.
Most of autogenerated files has nothing meaningful there.

Filename requested !

The option does not show up. Please return this useful feature.
As an aside, why do you remove good things and add bad things in your updates?
It would be really good if the updates became upgrades. Not the case for a lonnnng time.

Hi in 2024, I am still having this issue. Which started recently. I am on Acrobat version 23.0. When I convert an excel file to PDF the document name does not display but only a portion, which it never done in the pass. I have many documents that are name similar but the dates at the end is changed, and this is a problem, especially since the full document name is not shown on top.

Please change Acrobat so that it displays the filename by default, not the "title" in the meta-data.

Followed the instructions that have worked for other folks, File-Pref-Doc-Always Use File Name, on how to display filename instead of document title. It did/does not work. Any suggestions as to how to get around this issue?
Using Continuous Release Version 2023.008.20470
Thank you

How to display File Name instead of Title, please help!
I work with multiple pdf and they all have the same title but different name. So I want to display name instead of Title.

ABSURD TO ME THAT ADOBE MAKES US VOTE TO ADD SUCH A BASIC FUNCTIONALITY.
When juggling a dozen PDF files open at once it is ludicrous to have to view properties to see the filename!!!!!

I have adobe 2020 pro - still have the same problem

Not really fixed. The new "feature" is for Reader. What about providing control when making .pdf?
What controls the auto-population of Title when pdf is created??
Multiple open tabs in BROWSERS will display the irrelevant Titles, not file names, obfuscating the contents of open tabs!

@Jesper - thanks. I do see that option. I hadn't seen the original update by Ayush, but for some reason I've gotten several update emails the past few days. One of those updates from earlier today - a comment by Anonymous - said to set the option using the 'File > Properties > Initial View > Window Options' screen. My installation doesn't have the 'Initial View' tab on the Document Properties screen (though it is on the screenshot that Anonymous included). In any case, it's good to know that I can set it globally on the 'Edit > Preferences > Documents' configuration page.

@Willam Fruth: As Ayush Jain from Adobe said 2020-08-12 (see above):

"To enable the preference, go to Acrobat preferences, and click Documents in the left pane. Under Open Settings, select Always Use Filename As Document Title."

That settings does in fact exist in my installation (Adobe Acrobat DC, Continuous Release version 2021.011.20039), and it seems to work.

First - glad to see there is a fix. I'd stopped using Adobe Reader because of its huge resource demands, but just checked again and see that the filename shows up in the title bar.

Second - Even though fixed, the 'File > Properties > Initial View' tab does not exist in my installation (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Continuous Release | Version 2021.011.20039).
(Check for updates says I'm up to date).

In any case, the Document Properties would not be a good location for this option, as this should be a global option. To that point, I checked the 'Edit > Preferences' menu and don't find the option there either.

@Dimas Haribowo

It is under File > Properties > Initial View > Window Options

Show: should be set to File Name

Pleas help, I dont see the options to use file name instead of TITLE.. (screen shoot attached)

Are you going to do this for other versions of Acrobat Reader? DC is so slow. I sometimes don't have good internet connection and then DC seems to take an eternity to launch a file. I suspect it spends a lot of time trying to do some sort of communication that has no value to me. I had to go back to an older version.

Thank you!! Just found the option in my Acrobat Reader DC and checked it. The tab changed as soon as I closed the preferences window. Yay!