I have a list of Word, Excel, and Acrobat files in C and the formula
=HYPERLINK("S:\public\Forms\" &C2, "Open " & C2) in C.

Multiple people are using the worksheet. It appears that everyone can
open the .xls and .doc files, but the .pdfs open for some and not
others - often with a brief flash of the Acrobat application, then
nothing. Copying file name and opening it within Acrobat works fine.

Any ideas on where this behaviour is comming from?

Tim Mills-Groninger

So make sure that all the users have the latest version of the software:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...13&fileID=2551

timmg wrote:
>
> I have a list of Word, Excel, and Acrobat files in C and the formula
> =HYPERLINK("S:\public\Forms\" &C2, "Open " & C2) in C.
>
> Multiple people are using the worksheet. It appears that everyone can
> open the .xls and .doc files, but the .pdfs open for some and not
> others - often with a brief flash of the Acrobat application, then
> nothing. Copying file name and opening it within Acrobat works fine.
>
> Any ideas on where this behaviour is comming from?
>
> Tim Mills-Groninger

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Dave Peterson

On May 14, 10:45*am, Dave Peterson <peter...@verizonXSPAM.net> wrote:
> So make sure that all the users have the latest version of the software:http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...ID=2713&fileID...

good suggestion - I'll have to justify to IT.

I'll take a look at versions that work and compare them to versions
that don't. Mine is Standard 7.0

Tim

There have been reports that the point release fixes the problem.



timmg wrote:
>
> On May 14, 10:45 am, Dave Peterson <peter...@verizonXSPAM.net> wrote:
> > So make sure that all the users have the latest version of the software:http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...ID=2713&fileID...
>
> good suggestion - I'll have to justify to IT.
>
> I'll take a look at versions that work and compare them to versions
> that don't. Mine is Standard 7.0
>
> Tim

--

Dave Peterson

I realise this is probably too late for you Tim, but this may be useful if
anyone else is having the same problem.

I had the same thing on my Corporate system (using v 7.0.0 of Reader) - so I
could not just install the upgrade :-(

The workaround is to create a shortcut to the PDF and point the hyperlink at
the shortcut.

HTH

Dave

"timmg" wrote:

> I have a list of Word, Excel, and Acrobat files in C and the formula
> =HYPERLINK("S:\public\Forms\" &C2, "Open " & C2) in C.
>
> Multiple people are using the worksheet. It appears that everyone can
> open the .xls and .doc files, but the .pdfs open for some and not
> others - often with a brief flash of the Acrobat application, then
> nothing. Copying file name and opening it within Acrobat works fine.
>
> Any ideas on where this behaviour is comming from?
>
> Tim Mills-Groninger
>