Embedded PDF Object in Word Issues

[billyk1982]

I am trying to embed a PDF object into a Word file.  When I email the Word file with the embedded PDF object, the recipient only see the PDF as an "image" and cannot open the actual PDF.  Clearly I am missing something crucial here but cannot figure out what.  Please help!!!

[John T Smith]

1 - search Microsoft about problems with Word Microsoft - Official Home Page

2 - do not put inside a Word document, send as an attachment to your email

[jane-e]

Here is a link from the Microsoft website.

Add a PDF to your Office file - Office Support

And some external links:

2 Ways to Insert a PDF into a Word Document

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLBn_lx-XMw

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

Despite references to the contrary, you can't truly embed a PDF file into any Microsoft Office document, at least under Windows. Simply stated, the various Microsoft Office document formats simply cannot accommodate even a major subset of the PDF imaging model!

If you follow Microsoft's advice to “open a PDF file” in Word, you get an attempt to match the PDF content with what Word supports. This might work for a very simple PDF file of a memo originally done in Word, but not much more. To start with, Microsoft Office cannot handle anything other than RGB colors, only one out of PDF's sixteen transparency blend modes, Type 1 fonts,

If you try embedding a PDF file in a Microsoft Office document under Windows, you will simply get an RGB bitmap representation of the page being embedded. It is obviously not searchable nor editable.

          - Dov

[Kiran Krishna5FBB]

I was facing this issue when i had the adobe reader touch software which was trying to open the embedded file from my MS office. I uninstalled the Adobe reader touch and installed Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. After setting Acrobat reader DC as the default software i was able to open the embedded PDF file from my MS Word file.

Hope this helps you !