Next, click on it ONCE, and then go to the File menu and choose “Get Info.” Shortcut: ⌘-I (that’s a capital I, not the number 1.
MAC HOW TO MAKE PREVIEW DEFAULT APP HOW TO
How to change the app that opens when you double-click a particular PDF Users can configure Teams to open the file directly in Teams (default), open in the web browser, or open in the Word, Excel, or PowerPoint desktop apps.
Acrobat and Preview can both do it, but Preview does it faster and nicer, so let’s see how we can make that happen. The Teams desktop and web apps for Windows and Mac now enable users to configure the default app used to open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that have been shared in Microsoft Teams. Most of the time, though, all we want to do is double-click a PDF and have a look at it. Using the Preview app is a treat, with plenty of groovy features under the hood should you care to go deep. Second punishment: by using Acrobat, you’re NOT using Apple’s built-in, elegant, powerful, joy-to-use Preview app. I wouldn’t make my dog use Acrobat Reader. Follow these instructions to set Adobe Acrobat Reader as the default application for opening PDF files.
While versatile, Preview will NOT allow you to make changes to PDFs with editable content.
Every version of Acrobat Reader is misery to use: slow to launch, clumsy to operate, thousands of indecipherable options in the Preferences dialog, and very “un-Mac-like.” In OS X, Apples Preview is the default application for opening a number of file types, including PDFs. First punishment: Adobe’s punishing your by making you use Acrobat Reader (or Acrobat Reader DC, or Acrobat Reader Pro DC, or maybe an older version of Acrobat Reader). If Acrobat Reader has taken over your PDFs you’re being doubly punished.