Grid with File Preview in Acrobat X Pro

In the previous version of Acrobat 9 Pro -- there was a layout call Grid with File Preview.  We use it as our primary layout for PDF portfolios, but in version 10 Pro -- I cannot find this layout anywhere.
Does anyone have a clue as to where I can set it to this layout?  I have contacted Adobe Technical Support and they were unable to help me with the problem and another forum had users mentioning the same question, but never was resolved.
I would appreciate any productive feedback.

I was also lost when we upgraded to Acrobat X.  I work for lawyers, and they always reviewed document productions (usually thousands of PDF files) using Acrobat 8.  They didn't like the flying cards so we stopped using Acrobat X for file review.  Also my portfolios bogged down so slow that it was impossible to quickly view the thousands of PDF files I'd previously packaged in Acrobat and indexed for searching.  IT upgraded us 3 weeks before trial which really made my day!!
I just noticed that someone has created a custom NAV layout just like the Grid with File Preview and it's available for free download at http://blog.practicalpdf.com/2012/07/grid-with-file-preview-pdf-portfolio-layout-available -now/.  I'm going to try it and hopefully start using Acrobat again.

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