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I put a hyperlink to a .PDF file in a cell. When I click it, the file
appears to open, but closes right away. How can I keep it open? Thanks for any help you can provide. .............Tom |
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Hi Tom,
If you are using the Adobe Reader (formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader) check that you are version 7.0, if not upgrade at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html or follow the links from the adobe.com home page. I've seen what you mention, probably in Internet Explorer. It is much better to NOT have your browser open the reader within the browser, but to directly open a PDF file with the Reader.. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Tom W" wrote in message ... I put a hyperlink to a .PDF file in a cell. When I click it, the file appears to open, but closes right away. How can I keep it open? Thanks for any help you can provide. ............Tom |
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Thanks, David. I'm using v7 of Adobe Reader, and my browser, IE6, isn't, or
at least shouldn't, be involved in opening the file. Hyperlinks to other document types (.doc, .txt, etc.) work fine. It's just those $%^&*( .pdf files that behave badly. I'm really scratching my head over this one............ .....................Tom "David McRitchie" wrote: Hi Tom, If you are using the Adobe Reader (formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader) check that you are version 7.0, if not upgrade at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html or follow the links from the adobe.com home page. I've seen what you mention, probably in Internet Explorer. It is much better to NOT have your browser open the reader within the browser, but to directly open a PDF file with the Reader.. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Tom W" wrote in message ... I put a hyperlink to a .PDF file in a cell. When I click it, the file appears to open, but closes right away. How can I keep it open? Thanks for any help you can provide. ............Tom |
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Hi Tom,
I thought I had Adobe Reader v7 installed, but it looked like it was only v6. So I installed v7 (I selected Win 2000 SP 2, but my SP is 4 according to Windows Help) it was a 12.2 MB download it was 42 MB installed and with it installed I can't read PDF files from anywhere. Hmmm does seem like something is wrong. That was a waste of time. I see several postings in other newsgroups about v6 being a clunker and v7 not working on older documents. One said they were back to v5 and would use v6 from the desktop for a few rare documents that they can't use v5 for. And I uninstalled and deleted those thinking that was part of the problem when I installed 7.0 and it did not work. I had Adobe Reader 5.1 in my downloads, reinstalled it and even though I plug-ins being copied it is up and running with no need to reboot (!!!!!), and invoking from both Firefox or IE but is bypassing the plugins and opening by the file types default of the Acrobat Reader which is a lot faster. I also still have the download for Adobe Reader 6 should I need it and will not uninstall 5.1 if I need 6. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Tom W" wrote in message ... Thanks, David. I'm using v7 of Adobe Reader, and my browser, IE6, isn't, or at least shouldn't, be involved in opening the file. Hyperlinks to other document types (.doc, .txt, etc.) work fine. It's just those $%^&*( .pdf files that behave badly. I'm really scratching my head over this one............ ....................Tom "David McRitchie" wrote: Hi Tom, If you are using the Adobe Reader (formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader) check that you are version 7.0, if not upgrade at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html or follow the links from the adobe.com home page. I've seen what you mention, probably in Internet Explorer. It is much better to NOT have your browser open the reader within the browser, but to directly open a PDF file with the Reader.. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Tom W" wrote in message ... I put a hyperlink to a .PDF file in a cell. When I click it, the file appears to open, but closes right away. How can I keep it open? Thanks for any help you can provide. ............Tom |
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