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All my pdfs, and email attachments, & some others, are opening as web pages, which I do not want.How do I stop this and convert all converted files back to pdf?

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Every attachment in my email and many of my files in Windows Explorer are converting from Word or Excel or Powerpoint to a web page. Even when I print and scan them in, they open as a web page, regardless of the extension. I now have a lot of documents where I have lost my formatting, which for my Excel files is a disaster. Melinda Harper

Every attachment in my email and many of my files in Windows Explorer are converting from Word or Excel or Powerpoint to a web page. Even when I print and scan them in, they open as a web page, regardless of the extension. I now have a lot of documents where I have lost my formatting, which for my Excel files is a disaster. Melinda Harper

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It was a setting in Adobe.

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Hi Melinda, can you still get the original files from your email? It sounds as though they might not have saved in the correct format when you downloaded them the first time.

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It was a setting in Adobe.

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mmharper said

It was a setting in Adobe.

Acrobat or which software version of adobe?