IBook opens in Preview only ?

When I open a pdf in iBook, it opens in Preview
Yet it seems iBook has its own reader since there are commands like
See Table of Content etc

Well you can drag your PDF to the table of Contents>Books in the left margin
however, PDF will still open in Preview.
Books will open in the iBooks interface.

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Today I received the same error that you all have been discussing. I tried selecting the DRM
and this did not work for me, though I'm glad it did for some. Here's what I did as a work-around. . .
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http://img146.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110314at104.png/
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Message was edited by: Danika Johnson

Danika
Those files that open in Preview, open them in Preview and then save them. Then try import them.
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I had seen some thing discussed previously, but not being a computer programming expert I could not seem to understand what I needed to do to fix the problem.
Along with the dilling comments back about what was being asked I will advise the problem as follows.
I use a Numbers file daily and created a short-cut to the desktop to make opening the file easier.
The file is updated at least twice a day.
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I am developing an Excel spreadsheet containing a number of macros that are actioned mainly through the use of an ADD-INS customised menu.
The spreadsheet has been deployed across about twenty systems running a mixture of mainly windows 7 64 bit machines with Office 2010 or 2013 installed.
For several weeks each spreadsheet has been updated periodically as new functionality has been added. This has not been a problem until now.
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I have ruled out it being an Office version number problem because in both 2010 and 2013, some work some don't.
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I can find nothing that is forcing the problem machines to open the spreadsheet in preview mode and the difference between the previous version of the spreadsheet and the latest version are relatively minor, but the previous version works and the latest version
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I feel that I have effectively ruled out any problem with the code itself and so instead concentrated on it being a "preview" mode problem.
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I am therefore now very confused. This latest version of the spreadsheet is being opened by let's say 50% of the machines in what appears to be preview mode. The machines are all part of the same network and I have checked that they all have the latest Windows
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I have checked the security levels and all the machines seem to be set up the same.
I have doubled checked and there is no digital certificate on the original spreadsheet.
I need it to work the way it did before, i.e. each computer receives a new version and can open it without any messing around.
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I'm running out of ideas.

Hi Jeffrey
>> Excel spreadsheet being opened in preview mode by some machines
>>>Is it caused by the custom code, could you reproduce this issue without the custom code?
I can't seem to isolate the code to cause the problem, when I isolate the code it works.
>> New version of the spreadsheet get an error 'Application-defined or object-defined error' a number of machines experienced this same problem all at the same time
I>>>’m not sure whether it was caused by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-082.
>>>Here is a KB for your reference: KB3025036
I have had this problem but managed to resolve that by deleting the .exd files.
>> However it is still a problem for the first machine that experienced the problem, even though the Windows Updates are wholly up to date.
>>>Currently, I’m not able to identify the root cause of this issue, but if this issue could only be reproduced on a specific machine, I will suspect this issue is related to a specific environment. If this is an urgent issue, I will recommend you
creating a support incident so that the engineers could work closely with you to troubleshoot this issue in a deep level, if the support engineer determines that the issue is the result of a bug the service request will be a no-charge case and you won't be
charged.
I have now installed the same spreadsheet on 20 machines.
15 - installed without any problem,
3 - experienced the problem but then mysteriously worked a few days later without me doing anything other than trying again.
1 - worked only after I digitally certified the VBA on the local machine,
1 - I can't get it to work at all no matter what I do. (Edit the VBA locally, digitally certify the code etc)
I have another 4 machines that need to be done.
For the 1 that I can not get to work at all I have checked that all the windows Updates have been applied. It is a relatively new desktop PC running Windows 7 64 bit and Office 2013.
Does any of that suggest a possible cause? To me it almost suggest a windows update is resolving the problem but if it is it is proving difficult to pin down as to which one.
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Computer hangs everytime I open up preview.

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Do a backup.
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