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Customizing Toolbars in Adobe Acrobat

You can greatly customize the different toolbars in Acrobat. The program lets you move, eliminate, and add new toolbars with ease. To customize Acrobat’s toolbars:

  1. Go to Tools > Customize Toolbars.
  2. When the More Tools window appears you’ll see all of the available Acrobat tools.
  3. To add a tool just check the box next to it or uncheck the box to remove the tool.
  4. For this example, let’s add the commenting toolbar by checking the box next to Comment and Markup.
  5. After clicking OK, you’ll notice that the Comment and Markup toolbar is now free floating within Acrobat.
  6. To add the Comment and Markup toolbar to the main toolbar simply click and hold down your mouse where it says Comment and Markup and drag the toolbar on top of the main toolbar and release.
  7. You should now see the commenting tools added to the main toolbar.
  8. If you ever want to restore the default toolbar settings, simply go to View > Toolbars > Reset Toolbars.

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5 Responses to “Customizing Toolbars in Adobe Acrobat”

  1. Michael McCurry on February 11th, 2008 at 6:35 am

    I am a registered user running Acrobat Professonal 8.0.0 on Mac. I’ve created a toolbar that I’d like to save it as the default toolbar. However every time I open a new file, or reopen the program, I have to reopen it (i.e. the default setting seems to be NO toolbar). Is there any way of changing that?

    -Mike

  2. If your toolbar changes are not sticking, you may have corrupted preferences. To reset the preferences, follow step 3 on this document from Adobe:
    http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=333217&sliceId=1
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    This will remove all of your Acrobat preferences and should give you a fresh start with the program.
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    Best of luck,
    Mitch

  3. Dear Support,
    Could you please respond to the query. I’ve been trying to find the file location for the toolbar settings for Adobe Acrobat but to no avail. The reason here is that we are currently using a ”Mandatory User profile solution” and would have to declare the file for ”Adobe Toolbar Settings”. e.g. Word Toobar settings is Normal.Dot via the \Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dot
    Thank you in advance for your help.
    Regards
    Anthony Balogun

  4. Anthony,
    I’m not sure where that file is. The preferences folder is in c:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\8.0 on Windows XP. There are also preferences in the registry and other folders.
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    I would recommend Adobe’s free Customization Wizard:
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3564
    It lets you “customize the look and feel of Acrobat” when deploying.
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    Mitch

  5. In ‘customize toolbars’ writen ” Only available when document right are enable”. I don’t known it. Because you can intruction me setting it.

    Thank you.

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