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Word 2013 won't display any inserted PDF files

Anonymous
2015-04-25T23:21:39+00:00

I'm trying to insert a PDF into a Word document. I'm following the instructions given here:

https://support.office.com/en-ca/article/Add-a-PDF-to-a-document-9a293b43-45de-4ad2-a0b7-55a734cf6458

"Display as icon" is not checked, but all that ever shows up in my document is an icon for the file. I've tried with several different PDF files, and always get the same result.

Any ideas on what might cause that or how I can get a PDF to display as an image/preview rather than an icon?

(Converting from PDF to some other image format is not a good solution--I'm looking to use the functionality described in the article linked above.)

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-21T08:22:56+00:00

    Yes.

    I had the same problem.

    I have 64-bit Office and the first time, I could insert the PDF (the whole content, not only the icon).

    Then 5 mintues later, I could only insert the icon.

    Then I read through your comment and realized that I closed two PDFs file now. So I re-opened them, now I could insert them effectively. Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-06-11T01:00:15+00:00

    I'm having exactly thew same frustrating problem you described here. Did you ever figure it out?

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-27T11:50:07+00:00

    Yes, as noted in my original post, "Display as icon" is NOT checked. It still only inserts an icon.

    I have the latest version of Adobe Reader (DC) installed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-27T05:22:41+00:00

    Is the check box shown below unchecked? That being the case it should insert the PDF first page as an object ... and certainly does here. I can't think of any reason (other than the use of an old version of Adobe Reader) why this would not work.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-04-26T12:45:42+00:00

    I have Adobe Reader DC installed and configured as the default PDF application.

    I'm following the steps you listed (which are the same as in the article I linked to above), but Word only displays an icon. (If I double click that icon, the PDF file opens in Adobe Reader.)

    And I'm not trying to get anything to cross page boundaries... the PDF files I'm using don't have multiple pages.

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