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How to change the way Adobe treats clicking on text with associated web link

Aug 4, 2012 6:43 PM

Using Windows 7 and both Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Reader X, when I click on text in the PDF document that has associated web link, Adobe (both versions) will open MS Word and then show a static version of the web page to which the link pointed.

 

How can I change this to cause Adobe Reader open a browser and use the browser to open the web site to which the link pointed?

 

Thanks.

343 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: Pat Willener, Aug 5, 2012 10:07 PM
 
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  • Pat Willener
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    1. Pat Willener,
    Aug 4, 2012 10:28 PM   in reply to jimbob83301
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    What is the file extension of the link - .htm or .html ...?

     

    That file association should open a browser window, not Word.

     

    What is your default browser?  Repairing or reinstalling the default browser should also fix the file association.

     
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    2. jimbob83301,
    Aug 5, 2012 6:34 AM   in reply to Pat Willener
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    There is no single file extension.  Some may be a web site ending in ".com" or ".gov" or may be a lengthy web site address like:  http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se

     

    I understand that these links should not open MS Word, but they do, even though the file associations are not for MS Word.

     

    I have installed two different versions of Adobe Reader without success in causing the links to open in the browsers rather than in MS Word.

     

    I have removed and reinstalled browsers with no success.  I have changed the default browser to Chrome, FireFox and MSIE without success in causing the links to open in the browsers rather than MS Word.

     

    I suspect that this is a setting in Adobe Reader that I have yet to find.

     

    I take the same document to other computers and it works as expected, opening the default browser and then opening the web page.

     

    I am stumped.

     
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    3. Pat Willener,
    Aug 5, 2012 10:07 PM   in reply to jimbob83301
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    Sorry, I think I was wrong in my earlier post; it should be the http: protocol that would open the browser.

     

    Can you try the following: Start | Run, then paste some URL like your http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se and hit Enter.  Does that open in the browser, or in Word?

     
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