Force preview to open pdfs in thumbnails

How can I force Preview to open its Sidebar in thumbnails firnat so I can go through my PDFs better?
Thank you.
Roxy

Hi Jose,
In Preview, I went to Preferences then clicked on "PDF". I enabled "Always show sidebar" and now PDF's either open with Thumbnails, or a Table of Contents, on the left column. I suppose it depends on the PDF and how it was created but for me this is acceptable. I'm running Mavericks 10.9.2.
Regards,
Mark

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