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Adobe Acrobat Help
Looking at the Work Area
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To select a hidden tool, hold down the mouse button on either the related tool or the
triangle next to the related tool until the additional tools appear, and then drag to the
tool you want. Or hold down Shift, and press the letter key showing in the tool’s tip to
cycle through the group of tools.
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To place hidden tools in the toolbar alongside the visible tools, hold down the mouse
button on the related tool or the triangle next to it until the additional tools appear, and
select the Expand This Button option. To collapse the hidden tools again, click the
triangle to the right of the tools.
Clicking the triangle of a tool to open a hidden group of tools
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To select the hand tool temporarily, hold down the spacebar.To select the current zoom
tool temporarily, hold down Ctrl-space (Windows) or hold the spacebar and press the
Command key (Mac OS). To select the noncurrent zoom tool temporarily, hold down
Ctrl-Alt-space (Windows) or Command-Option-space (Mac OS). The tools are selected
as long as you hold down the keys.
Using context menus
In addition to menus in fixed locations in the work area, Acrobat provides context-
sensitive menus that display commands for the particular item under the pointer.
To choose a command from a context menu:
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Position the pointer over an item in the work area, such as a thumbnail, comment,
bookmark, or document page.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) to open the context menu.Then drag to
the command you want.
Using palettes and the navigation pane
Palettes help you organize and keep track of a document’s bookmarks, thumbnails, signa-
tures, comments, articles, and destinations. Palettes can be docked inside the navigation
pane, or they can float in windows over the work area. They can also be grouped with
other palettes.
To show or hide the navigation pane:
Click the Show/Hide Navigation Pane button
in the menu bar, or click the left border of
the document pane.
To show or hide a palette:
Choose the palette’s name from the Window menu. A check mark appears in the menu
next to a palette name if it is currently visible. The palette appears in the navigation pane
or in a floating window, depending on where the palette was located the last time it was
visible.