Re: Receiving pdf files by ChrisReavley
ChrisReavley
Fri Dec 21 12:45:00 PST 2007
Terry, can't believe I didn't think of that, of course it works, I've
recently had to reinstall the OS to get rid of a fault and I simply had
forgotten to reinstall an Adobe reader. Thank you very much. Chris
"Terry Farrell" wrote:
> You cannot open PDF files in Word without first converting them to text that
> Word will recognise: so on your laptop, the PDF is launching a PDF reader.
> Install a PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat on your desktop
> computer. Windows will then associate PDF extensions with Acrobat and open
> it as appropriate just as with the laptop.
>
> --
> Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP
>
> "Chris Reavley" <Chris Reavley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:423C8A14-02BC-4F62-9E07-6B6D014A00FF@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I have 2 PC's one laptop, one desktop. When I receive an e-mail with a
> > pdf attachment (Adobe) my laptop opens it no problem and it is legible.
> > The
> > desktop however, sees the attachment as a Word file. When you click on it,
> > the (opening mail attachment" dialogue box comes up - click open, then the
> > file conversion bo comes up and it is set to default but the text is a mix
> > of
> > "hieroglyphics". If you then choose other encoding none of the many option
> > deciphers the text.
> > The same happens with or without my 3rd party antivirus running. This is
> > Word/Outlook 2003.
> > Any ideas, as this is beyond my level of competence ?
> > Thanks
> > Chris
>