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Outlook 2010 PDF Handler

For several months I have been getting the message in Outlook 2010 that there was no PDF Handler.  I decided to do something about it today. I tried for about an hour.  One of the steps I took was to “repair” Office.  That required me to restart my computer, something I seldom do because of  how long it takes to do so, even with a Core i7.  The repair didn’t solve anything.

One thing I read online was to go into Adobe Acrobat reader and make sure some check-box was unchecked.  When I opened it up from the start menu, it starting going through some finalizing installation steps.  That seemed strange since I have been opening PDFs for some time now. I guess opening it directly is slightly different than opening the program by double-clicking a PDF file.  I got to the check-box and it was already unchecked.

I opened Outlook again, and my PDF Handler worked!  Apparently all it took was opening Adobe Acrobat Reader XI from the start menu.  What a crazy simple fix!

  1. Charlie
    May 8, 2015 at 12:36 PM

    Oh no, That probably means you have Adobe Acrobat installed into every office product too. It might be contributing to the reason your computer takes so long to boot!

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