Panel bar

The Panel bar is always visible on the left, except when the full-screen view is selected. Resize the panel area by dragging the right separator bar. Exit the Panel area by clicking the close control (x) at the top right.

The Panel bar always displays two useful tools at the top:

Hand icon Hand: Use as the basic navigation pointer. Select it to finish the use of any other tool. Specify the Hand tool behavior in File > Options > General > Miscellaneous.

Select icon Select: Use to select a text block or an image to edit or export properties.

Beneath these two tools, a customizable set of Panel tools is displayed. Each document can have its own set of visible panel bar tools. By default, the following tools are available.

Attachments icon Attachments: Access and work with a list of all attachments in the document along with added information.

Auto Recovery icon Auto Recovery: View a list of files for which changes could be lost following an abnormal program termination.

Bookmarks icon Bookmarks: Place bookmarks manually or automatically from a heading hierarchy.

Content icon Content panel: View the Content panel to browse existing content elements within your PDF document.

Clip Art icon Clip Art: View a customizable clip art collection and place art into documents.

Comments icon Comments: Access a list of all comments in the document, and reply to them, set their status, or interact with them in other ways.

Pages icon Pages: See and work with a set of thumbnails: one for each page in the document.

Stamps icon Stamps: View a customizable stamp collection and place stamps onto documents.

Security icon Security: Create and apply security schemes covering password and certificate security.

If you do not see a tool, right-click in an empty space on the Panel bar and select it. Cancel any panels you do not need. Click Reset Panels to restore the basic panels shown above.

Here are the additional options:

Collaboration icon Collaboration: Share your document for co-editing over the LAN (Local Area Network). See LAN Collaboration panel for details.

Compliance icon Compliance: Opens the Compliance panel. For example, test file compliance against PDF/A standards or accessibility criteria. Available in Power PDF Advanced only.

Destinations: Place and manage destinations in your documents for easier navigation.

Envelope icon Envelope: Create and manage envelopes, used to send groups of files with a cover page and optional security protection.

Form Controls icon Form Controls: List all form controls in the document.

Layers icon Layers: Show and work with all layers in the current PDF document.

Model Tree icon Model Tree: See the structure of 3D objects in the document along with their properties and values.

Signatures icon Signatures: View, verify and work with all digital signatures in the document.

Sign / Certify icon Sign / Certify: View and apply signature schemes.

Tag icon Tag: Create or modify tags for the document or change tag labels. See Create and modify a tagged PDF for details.

Watermarks icon Watermarks: View, create, reset, import and export watermarks.

An AutoStore panel displays when an integration for this storage system becomes available and is installed on the local computer.