Office 2007 cannot read pdf files

[frog40]

I am unable to open pdf files in Office 2007. I always get unreadable text. I downloaded the conversion pack, but it did not help

 

[smah]

.pdf files should be opened with a PDF reader or a pdf editor. MS Word (or Excel or any other Office application) is not a pdf reader or editor.

for readers look at Adobe Reader, Foxit reader, or PDF-Xchange Viewer

for editors look at Adobe Acrobat.

 

[frog40]

I had already downloaded Adobe Reader. I also uninstalled and re-downloaded the newest version. I am running Vista IE7. When I open the pdf file through Office 2007, it will only open in unreadable text.

 

[strongm]

As smah has already said, Office 2007 cannot open PDF documents. The 'conversion' pack allows the Office applications to save documents as PDFs, not to read them.

 

[cmeagan656]

You can't open a PDF file through Office 2007. You can save an Office 2007 file as a PDF file if you have the Office 2007 add on. However, to open those files you need to use Adobe Reader or a full version of Adobe.

If you need to edit a PDF document created by Office 2007 then you open the original (Word, Excel, or whatever) file, edit that, and re-save as a PDF file with the same name as the original PDF file.

Hope this helps.

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[cmeagan656]

Oops, I got distracted and strongm beat me to it.

Hope this helps.

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[frog40]

I appreciate all your help, but I found a solution that WORKED:
Open IE, click on Tools, click on Internet Options, click on Programs, click on Associate a File (or in Vista, click on Set Programs), scroll to PDF and highlight it, then click on Change Program. A list of Readers will appear, so I selected Adobe Reader.

In my case, even though the Add-on was there and so was the Conversion Pack, Microsoft Office 2007 was defaulted as the reader,and it would not change just because I had downloaded Adobe Reader. Once I changed the settings using the instructions above, it worked as it should. Now I am able to open all PDF files that were sent as attachments through Outlook 2007.

Again, thanks for your help.