Opening .pdf via hyperlink in excel always opens reader full screen

Using excel 2003, I have hyperlink cells that point to files on my local machine, with names like "file.pdf".
When I click on these links, excel launches acrobat reader (as expected) but for some reason reader *always* goes Full Screen no matter what I do.
How do I make it open NOT full screen? This is very irritating.

Hi,
You know I have to thank you for the solution as by asking your question you provided me with a way to solve my problem .....
As double clicking a pdf file when the application is open with no open document works as I want it to (i.e. showing the new document in the existing acrobat window), so I decided to try out a plain vanilla shell instruction in vba instead of the AVDOC.Open statement ... and ....although not very programmatically aesthetic .... it works.
rgds

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