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josh_bodner
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Sep 21, 2021

Pick up where you left off on Microsoft Edge PDF Reader

Thank you for all the love and feedback that you have shared with us as we continue our journey to become your PDF reader of choice. 

 

Reading long PDF documents is a very time consuming and tedious task we have all gone through. To make reading such documents easier we have already added ‘Read Aloud’ that lets you rest your eyes and listen to your PDF documents. We have now added another feature to make your reading experience even better by letting you pick up where you left off on the PDF documents you read in Microsoft Edge. When you reopen your PDF documents in Microsoft Edge, it will start from the position, zoom state and the layout that you were last reading it in. 

 

The feature is currently available in Microsoft Edge Canary and Dev channels and will be available by default to all users in Microsoft Edge release 95. If you prefer starting your PDF documents from the very first page every time you open the document, we have added a setting that lets you do that as well.  

 

 

Share your feedback with us and tell us how we can build a better PDF reader that suits your needs. Go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+i) to open the feedback tool and share your thoughts with this. 

  • McAkins's avatar
    McAkins
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 25, 2021
    Please don't forget the EPub reading too in Edge. We had it and you took it away. Maybe you've restored it, haven't checked in a while; in that case consider this comment not sent.
  • Hans-Oh's avatar
    Hans-Oh
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 15, 2024
    Notice that once I input the below :
    edge://flags/#edge-new-pdf-viewer
    Enables the new experimental version of PDF reader. – Mac, Windows (ENABLED)

    to resolve Chinese Text won't input in Edge. The Chinese text problem is solved. However, the Open PDFs to last viewed location when you reopen files even when TURNED ON, every time reopen my PDF file, it always begin from the 1st page, the from last viewed location function is no longer working.

    How to resolve this?? Thanks.
  • hoangnguyen1970's avatar
    hoangnguyen1970
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 17, 2024

    josh_bodner  The tip you provided used to work until recently. But about 3-4 months ago (say, around summer 2024) I started realizing that it has stopped working for PDF documents that contain hyperlinks and/or hyper-references. Most likely the new Edge versions have this glitch which is rather annoying and frustrating as most documents I am composing require these hyper features. Do you have any hint to go around? Thank you.

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