incompatability with Adobe Acrobat

[admin]

After installing Office 2003, I now get an error message
every time I open Word stating that there is an
incompatability with Adobe Acrobat with instructions to
download an update from Adobe. I did that, but I still
get the message. How can I resolve this annyoing
problem. Must I return to Office XP?
thanks

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

After installing Office 2003, I now get an error message
every time I open Word stating that there is an
incompatability with Adobe Acrobat with instructions to
download an update from Adobe. I did that, but I still
get the message. How can I resolve this annyoing
problem. Must I return to Office XP?
thanks

Best to check on the Adobe forums. Adobe generally does a major release just
before Office so there is frequently a period of "discomfort" while Adobe
addresses issues in patch updates.

See http://groups.google.com/groups?group=adobe.acrobat.windows

 

[Rob Schneider]

After installing Office 2003, I now get an error message
every time I open Word stating that there is an
incompatability with Adobe Acrobat with instructions to
download an update from Adobe. I did that, but I still
get the message. How can I resolve this annyoing
problem. Must I return to Office XP?
thanks

You aren't explicit with explaining the symptoms of your problem. There
error isn't that it's incompatible with Adobe Acrobat, it's
incompatibale with a particular version of the add-in macro provided by
Adobe.

I have Acrobat 4.0 installed with Office 2003. No upgrade for this
particular macro seems available from Adobe. They publish and upgrade on
web site for Adobe 5.0, but not Adobe 4.0. I am guessing that I am
forced to upgraded to Acrobat 6.0 which I'm in no hurry to to get back
this macro capability. (It's a terrific macro, by the way).

So, I fixed the problem in Office by removing the startup Adobe macro
(Menu: Tools/Templates and Addins ...).

Creating PDF's from Word 2003 with Adobe Distiller works just fine.