Adobe Reader Bookmark panel scrolling

We have documents with a large number of bookmarks. We would like to be able to scroll through the bookmarks but there is no scroll bar on the bookmarks panel. The mouse wheel allows us to perform this action, however we are using a smartboard to display the pdfs so that's not an option.
Is there a way to display a scroll bar in the bookmarks panel or enable clicking and dragging in the panel to make it easier to scroll through the bookmarks?
Thanks

I had the same issue and this post was the first result on Google. After seeing no replies I immediately gave up searching and instead dropped into Adobe Reader's View menu and started tinkering.
SOLUTION:
It turns out Adobe Reader changes some settings on installation if it detects certain hardware (eg. a touchscreen). In this case the offending option is 'Touch Mode.' To get to the option (in Adobe Reader Xl v11.0.07 on Windows 7) go to 'View'->'Show/Hide'->'Toolbar Items' and click on 'Touch Mode.' There's a checkbox next to it that is always checked on my system but clicking it does seem to toggle a vertical scrollbar in the bookmarks pane.
I have no idea why someone at Adobe decided it would be a good idea to disable the scrollbar at all, ever. It makes it impossible to navigate large PDFs like technical manuals and there's no notice at all to the user that settings have been "optimized" for a touch interface.
It would be nice of the program to ask before doing in the future. But instead the distinctions between malware and products like Adboe Reader (with all its many issues, vulnerabilities and shady behind-the-scenes operations) continues to blur year after year. I hope this helps someone else having the same issue and maybe someone from Adobe might read this and take my advice to heart.

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I had the same problem on my Windows 8 touch screen laptop. It was driving me crazy! Every time I tried to scroll a page down, the program would zoom the page! Made reading an ebook difficult.
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Hey and hello,
i don't know it is the right Fourm. There is an problem with an pdf file on Acrobat Reader 9 running on Vista and XP. I create an PDF document with Adobe Acrobat Standard with simple properties. When i start reading the pdf file on Mac OS Preview there is no problem, but when i start reading it with Acrobat Reader (on XP or Vista) there is one page where stop the scrolling process, after a while it's going on. But the stop is always on the same page.
I try to delete this special page and everthing is okay, it is strange. because there is only Text on the page. I don't know what can i do to find out the error.
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I had the same issue and this post was the first result on Google. After seeing no replies I immediately gave up searching and instead dropped into Adobe Reader's View menu and started tinkering.
SOLUTION:
It turns out Adobe Reader changes some settings on installation if it detects certain hardware (eg. a touchscreen). In this case the offending option is 'Touch Mode.' To get to the option (in Adobe Reader Xl v11.0.07 on Windows 7) go to 'View'->'Show/Hide'->'Toolbar Items' and click on 'Touch Mode.' There's a checkbox next to it that is always checked on my system but clicking it does seem to toggle a vertical scrollbar in the bookmarks pane.
I have no idea why someone at Adobe decided it would be a good idea to disable the scrollbar at all, ever. It makes it impossible to navigate large PDFs like technical manuals and there's no notice at all to the user that settings have been "optimized" for a touch interface.
It would be nice of the program to ask before doing in the future. But instead the distinctions between malware and products like Adboe Reader (with all its many issues, vulnerabilities and shady behind-the-scenes operations) continues to blur year after year. I hope this helps someone else having the same issue and maybe someone from Adobe might read this and take my advice to heart.

Adobe Reader Bookmarks

I have all of my Aviation publications in .PDF format. I keep them on my android tablet (Samsung Tab S 8.4). With the adobe reader app for android, it allows you to bookmark pages (along with renaming the page you bookmarked). Also I have these publications on the acrobat.com cloud, and when I open the file from the cloud on my phone the bookmarks I created are there.
Here is my issue. When I transfer the file to my phone (Galaxy Note 4) and open that same .pdf file from the tablet on the phone, those bookmarks I created are not present on the phone. Same if I upload the file from the tablet to my google drive and then try to open the file on my phone, the bookmarks are not there.
Is there a way that when I save a .pdf file (save it to anything other than acrobat.com) that I edited (i.e. bookmarked, highlighted...) on my tablet, that I can see those bookmarks on my computer or my phone. Doing everything through the acrobat.com cloud is fine for me, but I want to share these files with others that I work with, but all they get is the file with things highlighted or comments, they don't get the custom bookmarks I made.

Hi,
The PDF bookmarks listed under 'Table of Contents' are a part of the PDF while the user added bookmarks are the custom bookmarks added by the user to aid in reading. On moving a particular file from one location to another, the user added bookmarks are not retained. They, however, come back if you move the file to its original location. We are aware of this issue and tracking it internally. Also, the user added bookmarks are a feature of Adobe Reader on Android only, hence you will not be able to view them on your desktop or an iOS device.
If you upload the file to Acrobat.com, these bookmarks must persist and should be available across all your android devices until you move the file from one folder to another. Could you please confirm that without moving the file, the user added bookmarks are not retained and that you are unable to view these bookmarks across different android devices?
Thanks,
Adobe Reader Team

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Code Snipit:
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catch{}
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I considered passwords or certificates, but that predisposes that I know who the users are in advance. I don't, this is on an open website.
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tasty_minerals wrote:
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I created this solution because I had problems switching back and forth between "Home", "Tools", and "Document" after applying the move/delete fix:
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