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the Life of Zim

19th November
2009
written by dzimney

So I’m in Adobe Acrobat today and find that my regular toolbars aren’t present. Naturally, I go to the view menu and begin selecting items that I think may be the correct set of tools that I’m looking for. The first item to grab my attention in the View menu is “Menu Bar”. So I select the item and what happens? The system menubar is no longer available along with my dock. I’m not talking about any of the toolbars in the Acrobat. I’m talking about the Menubar that lists (Apple Menu), Acrobat, File, Edit, View, etc. Now how do I get my menu back? I have no idea because I just hid the way I made it go away.

You would think ‘esc’ might bring things back similar to when in Fullscreen view, but nope. Frustrating. After doing some research online I found the hotkey to bring back the Menubar. So to help anyone else to have this issue,

the default hotkey to bring back the Menu Bar is: Shift+Command+M

Hope this helps someone. And thanks again, Adobe, for your flawless user experience.

[EDIT]

on Windows

From a comment below, posted by Andrew:

F9 toggles the menu bar off and on in windows (acrobat 8 pro)

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9 Comments

  1. Beth
    18/11/2010

    Thank you so much!! that is exactly what happened to me too!
    Thanks!! U R a life saver!!
    thanks,
    Beth

  2. 22/12/2010

    Man… You would have thought that after a year and multiple updates Adobe would have figured it would be useful to make it easier for users to get their menu back… Apparently they didn’t!

    Thanks for the tip!

  3. 15/03/2011

    Ditto, thanks mate.

  4. chris
    25/06/2011

    domo arigato gozaimasu! that was painful to find!

  5. barclay
    21/07/2011

    seriously, i am so glad you figured this out!

  6. 804jason
    22/11/2011

    VERY helpful post. Thank you!

  7. david
    09/01/2012

    Me too thanks

  8. Andrew
    10/01/2012

    F9 toggles the menu bar off and on in windows (acrobat 8 pro)

  9. 10/01/2012

    Thanks for the addition.

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