With the recent updates to Acrobat, the long-standing functionality of using the spacebar to temporarily activate the Hand Tool has been removed or repurposed to trigger the comment/highlight feature.

This change significantly impacts productivity for many users – especially in design, prepress, and document review workflows – where precise and efficient navigation is essential. For many of us, the Hand Tool via spacebar was far more frequently used than the commenting tools.

I respectfully request that you please consider one of the following:

Restore the spacebar shortcut for temporarily activating the Hand Tool, as it existed previously.

Or at least allow users to customise the keyboard shortcut behavior, so we can assign the spacebar (or another key) to the tool we use most frequently.

Alternatively, allow users to set "H" as a persistent shortcut for the Hand Tool – currently this does not always work depending on context or UI mode.

Giving users the flexibility to control such fundamental interactions would greatly improve usability and workflow efficiency.