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Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Always show Acrobat page thumbnail sidebar

I shifted to Adobe Acrobat 2017 this year, and use the thumbnail view often for navigating within documents, for reordering pages, or for deleting pages.

Unfortunately I have not been able to get the thumbnail sidebar show permanently, so its non-appearance and my lack of ability to find where I could permanently turn it on anywhere has driven me batty.

I had a convoluted fix where I went through the properties in the document. For this I opened the thumbnail view via Properties | Initial View | Layout and Magnification | Navigation tab | and changed the setting from "Pages" to "Pages Panel and Page" (using the dropdown list). Then I would save the document, and then, when reopening it, the sidebar would usually appear.

However, there is a much easier way, thanks to vb64589654 (31 March 2016). This is to simply use F4 to toggle the "Pages Panel" (aka Thumbnail Pane) on or off.

In addition - and note that this is unlikely to make the change permanent - you can also try the following steps:

  1. Click Edit | Preferences | Documents | Tick "Restore last view settings when reopening documents".
  2. Then click OK.
  3. Save the current file that you used F4 on to get the thumbnail view.


Good luck!


Sam

Young, S. (2019, July 10). Always show Acrobat page thumbnail sidebar. https://www.samyoung.co.nz/2019/07/always-show-acrobat-page-thumbnail.html.

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