I’ve come across this problem where you cannot embed an Acrobat Document in MS Word 2007.

“The program used to create this object is AcroExch. That program is not installed on your computer…”

The problem is that there are some registry keys missing. Some people have reported fixing it by uninstalling Acrobat Reader version 9.0 and installing ver 8.0 then re-installing version 9.0.

The following worked for me on Windows XP SP3 by adding the missing Registry keys.

Copy the full text below and save in Notepad as Acrobatfix.reg
Double click the saved file and import to the Registry

————-*COPY TEXT BELOW THIS LINE*——————

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document\CurVer]
@=”AcroExch.Document.7″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}]
“AppID”=”{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}”
@=”Adobe Acrobat Document”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\AuxUserType]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\AuxUserType\2]
@=”Acrobat Document”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\AuxUserType\3]
@=”Adobe Acrobat 8.0″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats]
@=””

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\0]
@=”Embed Source,1,8,1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\1]
@=”14,1,64,1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\2]
@=”8,1,1,1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\3]
@=”Link Source,1,4,1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\4]
@=”NotesDocInfo, 1, 1, 2″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\5]
@=”NoteshNote, 1, 1, 1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\6]
@=”3, 1, 32, 1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\7]
@=”2, 1, 16, 1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DataFormats\GetS et\8]
@=”Rich Text Format, 1, 1, 1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DefaultExtension ]
@=”.pdf, PDF Files (*.pdf)”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}\DefaultIcon]
@=”C:\\WINDOWS\\Installer\\{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-A93000000001}\\PDFFile_8.ico ,0″

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