Acrobat toolbars - default to open?

When I open Acrobat, all of my custom toolbars were previously displayed.
I must have accidentally turned this off because, when I open a Acrobat now, the toolbars are hidden. I know how to get them to display again, but how do I return to the default setting of having the toolbars automatically be visible when I launch Acrobat?
I must have hit some keystroke combination that turned this setting off, but I can't figure out how to turn it back on, and searching the forum hasn't yielded an answer
Thanks very much for your help!

Thank you for the reply, Russell. You are correct - the toolbars don't appear without a document open. However, they used to automatically appear EVERY time I opened a document.
I have tried opening a PDF, switching on the toolbars (with F8 or via mouse), closing the PDF, then re-opening a PDF. The toolbars do NOT re-appear unless I F8 again.
There is a setting that allows you to revert to the last view (i.e., with the toolbar open, if it was open when you closed the PDF), but it only works if you re-open the SAME PDF in which you had switched on the toolbars. In other words, it reverts back to no toolbars if you open a new PDF.

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