Display and arrange toolbars

When your work does not involve using the tools in a toolbar, you can close it to tidy up the work area. For example, if you are not adding review comments to a PDF, there’s no need to have the Comment & Markup toolbar open.

When you need easy access to a toolbar that is hidden by default, you can open it. This toolbar appears as a floating palette, which you can move or dock in the toolbar area.

Note: If several PDFs are open, you can customize the toolbars for each PDF independently. The different customized states persist as you switch between PDFs.

Show or hide toolbars

To open a toolbar, choose View > Toolbars > [toolbar name]. A check mark next to the toolbar name indicates that the toolbar is displayed.
To hide all toolbars, choose View > Toolbars > Hide Toolbars.
To change a toolbar that is either shown or hidden, right-click/Control-click the toolbar area, and choose the toolbar you want to show or hide.
To change the visibility of several toolbars, choose Tools > Customize Toolbars or View > Toolbars > More Tools. Then, select and deselect toolbars. (Check marks by the toolbar names indicate which ones are currently visible.)

Note: Whether a new toolbar opens as a floating toolbar or docked in the toolbar area depends on its default position or where it appeared in your previous configuration of the work area, if any.

Move toolbars

To rearrange the docked toolbars, use the toolbar grabber bars to drag them from one position to another.
To move a floating toolbar, drag it by its title bar or grabber bar to another location in the work area.
To float a docked toolbar, drag it by its grabber bar from the toolbar area.
To dock a floating toolbar, drag it by its title bar or grabber bar to the toolbar area.
To move all floating toolbars to the toolbar area, choose View > Toolbars > Dock Toolbars.

Rows may be added to or removed from the toolbar area as you move the toolbars in and out.

Return toolbars to their default configuration

Choose View > Toolbars > Reset Toolbars.

Lock or unlock the toolbar area

Locking the toolbars prevents any rearrangement of the toolbar area, so all grabber bars disappear when the toolbar area is locked. Locking does not affect the positions of any floating toolbars.

Choose View > Toolbars > Lock Toolbars.

Select the command a second time to unlock the toolbar area.

Note: When the toolbar area is locked, you can still move floating toolbars by dragging them by their title bars. However, you can’t dock them unless you unlock the toolbar area.