Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 34)

28 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
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Last updated 9/30/2011
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.
Show and hide toolbar elements
You can alter the display within an individual toolbar to keep just the tools you need available with a minimum of
wasted space. You can also show and hide tool labels.
Show or hide individual tools
Acrobat includes more tools and more toolbars than the set that appears by default. You can customize the toolbars so
that the tools you use most often appear in the toolbar area.
❖ Do any of the following:
• Right-click the toolbar, and select a tool that you want to display or deselect a tool that is already displayed if you
want to hide it.
• Right-click any toolbar and choose More Tools. Then select individual tools and toolbars that you want to display,
and deselect those that you want to hide.
Note: A selected tool appears in the toolbar area only if its toolbar is also selected in the More Tools dialog box.
Show or hide tool labels
The default view shows labels for some toolbar buttons. You can show labels for all buttons to help you as you learn to
use Acrobat, or you can hide all tool labels to save space in the toolbar area.
❖ Choose View > Toolbars > Button Labels > [option].
Note: Tool labels are turned off selectively when space in the toolbar area becomes limited.
Review properties for tools and objects
The Properties toolbar provides easy access to the properties for many tools and objects such as links, comments, form
fields, media clips, and bookmarks. For example, if you select the Note tool, the Properties toolbar displays the current
default properties for that tool. If you select a note in the document, the Properties toolbar displays properties for that note.
You can use the Properties toolbar to change many of the settings that appear there. A few items only provide
information and cannot be edited.
Like all toolbars, the Properties toolbar can float or be docked in the toolbar area. The Properties toolbar is different
in that it doesn’t contain tools and can’t be customized to hide options.
1 Choose View > Toolbars > Properties Bar.
2 Select the object or tool that you want to review.
3 Change properties for the selected item, as desired.
If you want to change object properties other than those listed in the Properties toolbar, right-click the object, and
choose Properties.