MESSAGE from a friend who needs help

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Bob J

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"We bought some tickets online and I can't print them because I don't
know how to get the Adobe Reader to "read". When I click on the file,
it opens Word and shows me garbage, because it's looking at a .pdf
file. How do I make Adobe and Word communicate?"

They are using Acrobat 6.0 but I just can't remember the answer to
this one.

Thanks in advance ...
 
It sounds like the file associations are set wrongly. To fix it, do the
following:

If the file came by e-mail attachment, save it out to your My Documents
folder. Use Windows Explorer to locate the file. Right-click it and choose
"open with" then "choose program".

If Adobe Acrobat is listed, pick that and choose "Always use the selected
program to open files of this type".

If it is not listed, click the browse button and navigate to the Acrobat
program file. My machine has version 5.0 installed and it's located at
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\acrord32.exe". Version 6 will be
very similar.

Failing that, just open the Acrobat program directly from the Start menu and
choose "file | open".

Regards

Oli
 
Bob said:
Text Follows:

"We bought some tickets online and I can't print them because I don't
know how to get the Adobe Reader to "read". When I click on the file,
it opens Word and shows me garbage, because it's looking at a .pdf
file. How do I make Adobe and Word communicate?"

They are using Acrobat 6.0 but I just can't remember the answer to
this one.

Thanks in advance ...
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You can open Acrobat Reader, the use File/Open to access the pdf file.

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