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You can also lock toolbars that are undocked outside of the Toolbar Well. The separator bar on
the toolbar disappears on floating toolbars the same as it does for toolbars docked in the Toolbar
Well. However, locking undocked toolbars does not prevent you from moving them around the Acrobat win-
dow. You can click and drag the title bar for any undocked toolbar and move it to another location.
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Setting new toolbar defaults. If you decide to reposition your toolbars and want to keep them
fixed as new defaults, Acrobat can do so for you automatically. Move the toolbars to the desired
locations and go about your work. When you quit Acrobat and reopen the program, the toolbar
positions remain as you last arranged them. Unfortunately, Acrobat does not have a Save
Workspace command like you find in several Adobe Creative Suite applications.
If you are unfamiliar with many Acrobat tools, you can change the tool labels to show you a
more descriptive label for each tool that offers you a hint of what the tool does. To show more
descriptive labels, open a context menu on the Acrobat Toolbar Well and choose Show Button Labels ➪ All
Labels. The toolbars expand and show a text description for each tool’s name. Keep this option active until
you are familiar with the tool names.
Understanding advanced toolbars
The default toolbars represent a fraction of the tools available to you in Acrobat. Many of the other toolbars
remain hidden from view. The reason for this is obvious when you load all the toolbars in the Toolbar Well.
You lose a lot of viewing real estate when all toolbars are docked in the Toolbar Well. Unless you have a
large display monitor or a second monitor, working on a file in the Document pane when all toolbars are in
view gives little room to see document pages. Fortunately, by managing the toolbars you can elect to show
only the tools you want to work with and you can move them around the Acrobat window, allowing for the
best view.
You open toolbars from menu commands in the Tools menu or by opening a context menu. If you’re a sea-
soned Acrobat user, your first encounter with Acrobat viewers 6 and above might be a bit frustrating if you
don’t know how to access the tools you want to use. “Where is that Form tool?” you may ask. Don’t worry;
it’s there. You just have to poke around and search for it or, better yet, look over the following descriptions
to understand more about how these other tools are grouped into separate toolbars.
Opening advanced toolbars
For the purpose of discussion, I’ll refer to the non-default toolbars as advanced toolbars. Acrobat does not
refer to all these tools as advanced tools. Some of the tools labeled in the menu commands are not referred
to as advanced tools. For clarity in this chapter, though, consider all the following toolbars as advanced
toolbars.
You can use three methods for displaying toolbars not visible when you open Acrobat. You can open the
View ➪ Toolbars menu where you find a list of tools in submenus. Select a submenu item to open a toolbar
as a floating toolbar in the Acrobat window. Another method is to open a context menu on the Toolbar Well
and open toolbars from commands in the menu. A third option, and one that provides more options for
viewing all tools and toolbars in a single window, is to use the More Tools menu command when you open
a context menu on the Toolbar Well. As a matter of routine, you should use this option when preparing an
Acrobat session that requires you to use several tools and toolbars. All tools except the Form tools (Acrobat
Professional only) are accessible from the context menu.
Advanced Editing toolbar
The Advanced Editing toolbar shown in Figure 1.26 is one you’ll use in just about all Acrobat editing
sessions. Tools include the Select Object tool that is used to select content you add in Acrobat such as
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