What an ugly, clumsy step backwards.  A real PITA.  Dumb, dumb, dumb (IMHO, of course).

If reader X weren't so FAST, I think I'd go back to Reader 9 ...

This new find/search paradigm is NOT progress, Adobe !!!

Can we get a preferences selected option to use the old (pre-X) style, or if one actually likes

the new method, the new X-way?  Please?

Cheers,

/kim

You can permanently enable the search button using the following steps:

1. Right click in the abundantly empty area of the toolbar

2. In the pull-down menu, move your mouse down to "Edit  >"

3. In the subsequent pull-down menu, move your mouse down to "Show All Edit Tools" and left click

4. Voila, all your search buttons will now appear in this and subsequent documents

If you are so inclined, you can use this method to enable all sorts of buttons, if you like lots of buttons and can remember what all the buttons do.

To turn off all the new buttons, right click again the in toolbar and select "Reset Toolbars"

The workaround described here only enables the search button.

As I understand, there is no way to still have the search box (or search field) in the toolbar.

As others wrote, at least for me it is a fundamental feature to be able to search for something with Acrobat (Reader).

Being able just to write the word to search, was so easy.

So, WHY, did you remove this feature?

For this reason, I switched back to Version 9 (wich is not easy if

you have Acrobat Std X installed; you first have to uninstall Acrobat Std X, install Reader 9,

and then reinstall Acrobat Std X again).

Sorry Adobe, but this is an IMPORTANT step backwards, which is absolutely not acceptable.

Please, never remove a core feature (I really couldn't believe it, at first, and thought I am too stupid to find the right way to enable it).

What a pain.  I have had Reader X installed for ten minutes, now I find I have to uninstall it, locate the old version, and re-install that, because the old search box was my primary tool for reading PDF manuals.

UPDATE:  Since I'd installed X so recently, WIndows 7's System Restore function worked perfectly in removing Reader X and restoring Reader 9.  It still took 10 minutes.   But why eliminate such a basic tool from easy access in the toolbar?

Message was edited by: laserfaire

Just to let Adobe know that I agree with everybody here: pretty retarded to remove the find box from the toolbar.

And the new functionality is buggy too: I accidentally dragged the previous/next buttons on the find box, and they became invisible. Function was still there, even tooltips, but no icon. Worse, after that all other button icons in the toolbar became invisible as well. Same thing. I had to restart Acrobat to restore this.

Acrobat X Pro on Windows XP Pro SP3

One thing to note before going to version 9.4.5 -- it has its own search problem (documented in another Adobe Reader forum) where the search text is often not highlighted.  This was introduced when Adobe went from 9.4.4 to 9.4.5.  It's been driving me crazy (and lots of others), and as it seems that it will yet be some time before this documented bug is fixed, I upgraded to Reader X to get search text to hightlight.  It does now indeed hightlight, and I'm only somewhat less bothered by the reduced ease of use of the search box location and the tiny find previous and find next arrows.

Adobe -- Please give us the option to put the search box back on the toolbar with bigger previous and next arrows!