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MS Word vs Adobe

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2007-06-08 10:49:06
mtakahashi
Registered: Jun 7 2007
Posts: 2

Adobe Reader is too intrusive!
I keep a large number of records in MS Word format on my PC. Lately, when I try to open one of them I am confronted with a message "Adobe Reader could not open becasue it is either not a supported file or becasue the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachmentand was not properly decoded)."
I do not wish to convert all my files into pdf format. It is inconvenient to open MS Word before working on my documents in .doc format. How can I rein in Adobe Reader from dominating my PC? Don't get me wrong I love Adobe Acrobat for what it can do for me, but I don't want to be "married" to it.
Masato Takahashi, MD

My Product Information:
Reader 8, Windows
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2007-06-08 18:50:56
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pddesigner
Registered: Jul 9 2006
Posts: 858
Try this. Click Control Panel, Folder Options, File Type, and scroll to PDF. Inspect and make sure Adobe Reader is the application that opens PDF files and MS Word for doc files. Also make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Reader (now at 8.0).

My favorite quote - "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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