I can't open a pdf embedded in MS Office documents

Hello,
after upgrading to Acrobat Reader X, I can't open pdf files embedded as objects in Microsoft Office documents (Excel/Word).
I have tried to reinstall Reader already, but i'm still getting MS Visual Basic warning 'run-time error 1004 - unable to activate source aplication of this embedded object'.
I'm using WinVista with MSOffice2007.
Thanks for help.
Martin

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Hi,
I noticed that use newer excel 2010
spreadsheets that more more recently added to the file. Did you try to embed the Excel 2010 file to Word 2010 test? If it works fine, I suppose that it was a compatibility issue.
Because Excel 2010 had change the file format with Excel 2003.
I recommend you try to install Office 2010 sp2 and compatibility pack.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2013/07/31/download-the-new-microsoft-visio-compatibility-pack.aspx
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/923505/en-us
And there is a similar issue, we also could install the hotfix to test.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/b0dc1e24-847d-44e9-95c5-f789a0d50047/cannot-edit-embedded-excels-after-closing-document?forum=officesetupdeployprevious
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