Two-part question. I know this has been addressed before, but the solutions are not working for me.
I have Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Reader XI. When inserting a PDF document as an object into Excel, it will not allow me to insert the icon/object from the "Create New" option. I get one of two error messages: 'Cannot insert object' or 'Cannot start the soruce application for this object'. I am able to insert the PDF icon/object if I insert from the "Create from file" option. (Please note I cannot always link to the PDF, as some spreadsheets are sent out externally and will not have access.)
Once I am finally able to insert the document as an object, I can open and view the PDF. However, when I close the spreadsheet and re-open it, if I try to open the PDF document again, I get this error message again: 'Cannot start the soruce application for this object'.
I have changed my preference to disable the Protected Mode at startup and this issue is still happening. VERY frustrating. I never encountered this is past versions of Adobe and all previous suggestions are not fixing the issue. Does anyone have any insight or know of an update to fix this issue? Is this an Adobe issue or a Microsoft Office issue?