Excel link PDF

By Adobe, may I assume you to mean Adobe Acrobat? Just trying to be clear. Adobe [Systems, Inc.] is a company based in San Jose CA., USA. Acrobat is a product that Adobe Systems produces. My snarky remark is not directed specifically at you - but a general comment on the need to be clear about what is being asked. I correct most (almost all) of my end users at my company as well.

As for your problem - It has to do with how linking works out of MS apps. When linking out, Excel (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) will try to open the OLE linked object and embed it into the root document. PDFs cannot be OLE embedded in this manner as the applications have no native support for the file format.

In other words, MS Office apps would like to control the app necessary to open the document for OLE to work. Reader/Acrobat generally does not allow this outside of the browswer plug-in.

It can be done with custom apps through the programming APIs (example: PDF viewer integrated into document retrieval system) but not via OLE in this manner.

If someone else has other suggestions, please chime in. Thanks.

You might also try updating to Acrobat 7.0.9, there was a change in 7.0.5 in the way that hyperlinks from Office applications worked. Earlier versions of Acrobat 7 only searched web servers for PDF files that are linked to Office documents via hyperlinks. Acrobat/Reader 7.0.5 search web servers, local drives, and shared drives for linked PDF files.

Here is a link to the technical note with additional information:

[url=http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=331197&sliceId=1]http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=331197&sliceId=1[/url]Lori