PDF File opens in excel

All of a sudden, everytime I try to open a PDF file that has been sent via e-mail, it is opening it in microsoft excel instead of adobe reader PDF - It cmes up unreadable. What is happening and how can I get it to open correctly?

It's not actually a Reader problem but easily fixable.
Search your the help area for your OS (since neither of you mention what you have) for file associations and change them so that Reader opens PDF's.

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Thank you Thom for your reply...
from
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html
...Through JavaScript extensions, the viewer application and its plug-ins expose much of their functionality to document authors, form designers, and plug-in developers...
As it is explicitly mentioned, that the functionality of adobe reader are exposed for plugin development, I thought someone here might have used external javascript to execute some safe methods in adobe reader. The functionality (i.e. external javascript interface-JSObject) is already available for VB programmers to develop IAC. Further, the Acrobat SDK example called "AcroPDFinHML" shows how one can embed a pdf-reader in a html page and execute some safe methods (like gotonextpage(), zooming etc.) in IE as ActiveX plugin. I have checked it myself for adobe reader 9, and it works perfectly, so there is no security issue as such to implement the same for another browser (like in my case, the htmlloader control in flex/air app).
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