Microsoft continues to enhance PDF Reader in the Microsoft Edge browser. Sometime back, the company announced it will allow users to “pick up where they left off ” for PDF documents The feature is now available in Edge 95, here is how you can enable or disable it.
If you open a PDF file, generally, Chrome and Microsoft Edge, open it from the beginning rather than allowing you to resume/continue reading from the page where you were last time.
If you’re reading a book, when Edge remembers the last page of PDF you viewed, you can pick up reading from there when you reopen it rather than navigating to the page manually, where, most of the time, you may not remember the page number.
The lightweight PDF Reader, Sumatra, and Adobe Reader DC come with the ability to restore the last viewed states of PDF documents.
For Sumatra PDF, you need to enable the option “remember opened files” whereas, in the case of Adobe, you need to ensure the “Restore last view settings when reopening documents” option is checked in Documents Settings.
Today, Microsoft added a new setting for PDF documents to the Edge for the browser to remember and restore PDFs’ last view location when you reopen them.
Here’s how you can make Microsoft Edge remember and open PDFs from where you left off last time
- Launch Edge browser.
- Click on the menu icon and select Settings
- Click on Cookies and Site Permissions
- Select PDF documents under “Site Permissions”
- Enable “PDf View settings” that takes care of “opening PDFs to last view location when you reopen files”
Microsoft Edge gained open PDFs to the last viewed location setting
Just toggle the above setting if you want Edge to load the PDF file from the first page or beginning.
In addition to the above, Microsoft Edge recently received support for adding free form boxes where you can use this to add text to PDFs and fill in forms.
More on Microsoft Edge:
Windows 11 brings Modern Overlay Scrollbars to Chrome and Edge
Edge 94 features Immersive Reader and Sleeping Tabs improvements
Microsoft Edge now lets you Search through Vertical Tabs
Microsoft Edge’s Super Duper Secure Mode available in Settings
