In the olden days the standard was the "Common File Dialog" [0], I think this existed on both Windows 2000 and XP. The CFD evolved over time. Then Windows Vist

In the olden days the standard was the "Common File Dialog" [0], I think this existed on both Windows 2000 and XP. The CFD evolved over time. Then Windows Vista came along and we were introduced to the "Common Item Dialog" [1] which is now the recommended way to File Open/Save. > Acrobat has a sidebar with large icons of Recent Places, Desktop, Libraries, Computer, and Network. Possibly your version of Acrobat is either older, or Adobe haven't bothered themselves to get with the present and implement the Common Item Dialog, or if they do they're customising it...or even worse it's a subclassed franken-dialogue. But I feel and appreciate your pain. These two (fairly old) blog posts discuss the maddening situation with Windows file dialogues: http://insanecoding.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/file-dialogs.html http://insanecoding.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/file-dialogs.html http://insanecoding.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/file-dialogs-take-2.html http://insanecoding.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/file-dialogs-take... [0]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646960%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6... [1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776913(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...