Aitch,

Thank you for that suggestion, but it still does not address the ridiculousness of not having the option to minimize the Tools and Bookmarks menus when I open a document. For nearly all uses, I don't use them, so why do I need to minimize them every time? I agree that if the window is maximized, it is not much of an issue, but my Reader window is rarely maximized. An option for this needs to be added to the preference settings. I found that I can select the last state for reopening documents, but I want it not to happen on any new documents, either.

JEREMY:

I 'Disable new Acrobat' on the hamburger to revert to the previous UI. Still a menu on the right but not as intrusive.

You can change it back to the new UI under view.

For me, this is still an issue! When I open a document, I don't need to see the tools or bookmarks menu. If I need to see either of those menus, I will open them. There is no option I can find to make them not pop open every time I open a document, even if it's in the same session where I hid them on another open document. Give me the option to have them not open every dang time I open any document. It's not that hard.

Darren: Button? UI?

It was the latest desktop version. What I did didn't show or hide anything it just put the display back to the previous version (without the massive tools menu taking up half of the screen).

Everything, including the menus, have gone back to the previous version.

For Sam: it doesn't need to stay on as you can get in and out of it really easy. Keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+H.

Helen Stansfield: the setting you mentioned is a button to enable keyboard shortcuts for tools; for me it doesn't appear to show or hide anything. Are you using new Acrobat UI or old? (you can switch back and forth between the two)

Read mode does not stay on for me... How do you get to preferences?

This is the desktop version which is in Read Mode by default.

I got rid of it - Preferences, General, select the top option, closed the document, re-open it and it everything was back to the previous view.

WARNING - THE TAKES THE DISPLAY BACK TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION WITH NO APPARENT WAY TO CHANGE IT BACK...

You should try using the ‘read mode’ feature, which lets you hide all the editing menus in the app. When you're in read mode, there's just a minimalistic menu bar at the bottom of the screen which quickly disappears if you stop moving your mouse. See the attached picture.

You can also put the entire document on fullscreen.

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