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    Stop making these PDF mistakes

    Feb 24, 2021 5 minutes

    Stop using a dedicated PDF viewer

    You don’t need a cumbersome PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader to open, view and print PDF files. Instead, simply use your web browser. If it isn’t already, you can set your browser as your default PDF reader in Windows. Go to Settings (press Windows key+I), Apps, ‘Default apps’ then click ‘Choose default applications by file type’ (located beneath the grey Reset button). Scroll down the list of file types to ‘.pdf’ (see screenshot below), click the current default app on the right and select your browser. Double-clicking PDF files on your PC will now open them in a new browser tab.

    Don’t use a program to convert PDFs

    Converting documents and images to PDF used to require a dedicated program such as Adobe Acrobat, but Windows 10 has this feature

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