No, not Adobe Reader but Adobe Acrobat or any other PDF conversion tool that
you might have installed. Converting to pdf is not a native Outlook or Word
option.

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> when I set Word as the standard editor with Outlook 2003, all replies and
> forward messages are automatically attached as a pdf file, which I cannot
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> and this does not fix the problem. Could it have something to do with
> settings on Adobe Reader?