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How to make Adobe Acrobat your default PDF program (Windows)

How to make Adobe Acrobat your default PDF program (Windows)

Owned by Alexis Westerhof (Deactivated)
Last updated: Jan 17, 2023
2 min read

Opening PDFs in Edge or Google Chrome will make some features of PDFs unusable. It is advised to switch your default PDF program to Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat is also commonly referred to as Adobe Pro

  1. Open the Start menu

  2. Select Settings

  3. Choose Apps from the list

  4. In the left menu, choose Default apps

  5. Click on Choose default applications by file type

  6. Scroll down to .pdf

  7. Change the program to Adobe Acrobat
    Note: The year may be different depending on what’s installed on your computer

     

Now, the PDF files open in Acrobat Acrobat.

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