Embedded pdf file icon

[Fatih]

Hi All,

I searched the forum but I couldn't find any solution. I am using PDF X-Change Editor as the default PDF software. However, when I embed any pdf file into Word, Excel or PowerPoint, the pdf icon does not appear. If I make Acrobat Reader as the default software, then the problem is fixed.

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I am clicking "Change Icon" button, finding the Adobe Acrobat exe file to show the pdf icon each time. This is really annoying problem.

Could you please help me solve this issue?

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi, Fatih

I am afraid Microsoft have "hard coded" this. They will not allow you to change it from Adobe.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it is beyond our control.

[Fatih]

Thanks Paul for your reply. I ınstalled reader and make it default unfortunately to solve this problem.

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Hi all,

For me it seems to work (in Word 2016), simply like this:
- open a new or an existing document in Word
- in the Insert-ribbon, click the Object-icon > Object
- in the Object-dialog-box, click the "Create from file"-tab
- click the "Browse"-button, navigate to the PDF that you like to insert, and click the "Insert"-button
- activate the "Display as icon" check-box
- a default icon (like in the print screen here above) appears
- click the "Change icon..."-button
- in the "Change icon"-dialog-box, click the "Browse"-button
- navigate to "C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Editor" (= the default installation folder for PDF-XChange Editor)
- search for PDFXEdit.exe and click once on it (to select it), followed by clicking the "Open"-button
- normally, the default PDF-XChange Editor icon will be selected, so click "OK"
- finally, click OK once again, and that should be it
- the PDF-document is embedded and presented by the desired icon
- you can save and close the Word-document and when re-opening it, the correct icon should still be present
- double-clicking the icon starts the default PDF-application and opens the embedded PDF-file

@Fatih - I hope you will come back to read this...

Does that work for you ?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Willy Van Nuffel

Thank you very much, I do hope that this solution works in various other versions of word, and is not limited to 2016 or earlier versions...

Kind regards,

[Fatih]

Hi all,

For me it seems to work (in Word 2016), simply like this:
- open a new or an existing document in Word
- in the Insert-ribbon, click the Object-icon > Object
- in the Object-dialog-box, click the "Create from file"-tab
- click the "Browse"-button, navigate to the PDF that you like to insert, and click the "Insert"-button
- activate the "Display as icon" check-box
- a default icon (like in the print screen here above) appears
- click the "Change icon..."-button
- in the "Change icon"-dialog-box, click the "Browse"-button
- navigate to "C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Editor" (= the default installation folder for PDF-XChange Editor)
- search for PDFXEdit.exe and click once on it (to select it), followed by clicking the "Open"-button
- normally, the default PDF-XChange Editor icon will be selected, so click "OK"
- finally, click OK once again, and that should be it
- the PDF-document is embedded and presented by the desired icon
- you can save and close the Word-document and when re-opening it, the correct icon should still be present
- double-clicking the icon starts the default PDF-application and opens the embedded PDF-file

@Fatih - I hope you will come back to read this...

Does that work for you ?

Thanks Will, Apologies for my really late response.

Yes, I was following exactly same method. However, it is annoying and time consuming if you are embedding alot of pdf file which I am doing most of the time for tenders. Sometimes I am embedding more than 50 pdf files into the excel or word. Following the steps you mentioned is consuming huge time.

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Hi Fatih,

Okay thanks - Im sure Willy will get back to you on this in due course.

Kind regards,

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Hi,

It is also possible to drag-and-drop a PDF-file from Windows File Explorer to an open document in Microsoft Word.
Even Copy/Paste works.

The icon that shows up is that of the default PDF-application (tried with PDF-XChange Editor and also with PDF-XChange Viewer).

Does that also work for you ?

Kind regards.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Willy Van Nuffel

Huh, this must be a relatively new feature, in all my tests in the past (admittedly, quite a long while ago), Word would insert the files with the Acrobat logo, even when I did not have Acrobat installed.

Inspecting the current results in a word document, it seems that it is now simply creating a normal "image" object with link elements embedded through word, so I suppose they are fetching the default icon from the windows cache now, instead of using the older "all PDFs are acrobat" logic.

I very much approve of this kind of change!

Kind regards,