why does my Outlook 2007 download pdf attachments in Word?

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Lynne

when PDF document attachments come into my email inbox, they are opened in
Word, and consequently cannot be read unless saved to desktop and then opened
with adobe - a convoluted process. It hasn't always been this way. What have
i changed?
 
You have changed the file association of pdf-files to open with Word instead
of Adobe. There is no option to change this in Outlook as Outlook follows
the settings you made in Windows.

Which version of Windows are you using? One way to re-associate it with
Adobe again is to right click on a saved pdf-file-> Open With...-> Choose
Default Program...-> select Adobe Reader-> enable the option: Always use the
selected program
 
Lynne said:
when PDF document attachments come into my email inbox, they are opened in
Word, and consequently cannot be read unless saved to desktop and then opened
with adobe - a convoluted process. It hasn't always been this way. What have
i changed?
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What program loads when you double-click on a .pdf file listed in Windows
Explorer (i.e., a .pdf file on your hard disk)?
 
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