My PDF & Excel workbooks won't open in a PDF Portfolio...

I select "Open file" or "Open with native application" and nothing happens.

Sanjit –
I am using Acrobat XI Pro. I create a Portfolio by selecting files from a folder on my computer. Files consist of Word, PDF and Excel docs. I can open most of the documents if I want to edit them in the Portfolio.
There are a couple of PDFs that show up grayed out and when I open them, each page is gray. Could this have something to do with the way the doc is saved as a PDF? Is there something that the person who is saving/converting the doc should be doing differently?
Thanks.
Elaine

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