Preview PDF Files - Add a Free PDF Previewer to Outlook 2007

Posted: Aug 26, 2010 | Views: 123 |

You should be able to preview PDF files in Outlook 2007. Outlook comes with previewers for several file types. These allow you to take a peek at attached Word documents or Excel spreadsheets without launching Word or Excel, which can save you time and hassles. But it doesn't come with a PDF previewer. So let's add one.

Adobe Reader (which is also often referred to as Acrobat Reader) is the free PDF viewer from Adobe. You probably use Adobe Reader all the time, because it is the program most of us use to view PDFs normally. When we get PDFs as attachments, the normal procedure is to save them, then open them (with Adobe Reader) to view them.

Current versions of Adobe Reader can talk to Outlook, letting it use their technology to view the PDF right inside Outlook. Being able to preview attached PDF files right in Outlook's Reading Pane is faster and easier than saving the attachment and opening it just to get a peek inside.

You'll be glad to know that setting this up is pretty easy. All you need to do is download and install a current copy of Adobe Reader, then tell Outlook 2007 to use it as a PDF previewer. It should only take you a few minutes to set this up on your system.

Even if installing and configuring programs on your computer is not something you normally do, you can set this up yourself if you can follow simple instructions. Being able to preview PDF files inside Outlook makes the small amount of effort involved into a great investment.

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