Why is my comp trying to open my pdf files in excel?

why is my computer
opening pdf docs in excel?

I don't know what OS you have, but in Win7 you can (and since XP at least) right click on a PDF, select Open With, and select Acrobat. There is typically an option to make this default for the future for this extension. How it got messed up may not be determined. You just need to fix the problem with the file association. If it happens in the future, try to remember the last thing you did that may have caused such a change.

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