How to stop word documents from converting to PDFS

[Nichole5fac]

When I send attachemnts in my email as Word documents, immediately the Word documents start to convert to PDF's.  How do I stop this from happening.  I do not want every word attachement to convert.  Is there a way stop the conversions or at least have Adobe to ask me for permission to convert the word documents first?

[ls_rbls]

I think that depends on what preferences you've set in your email client to handle this type of attachments, and at the operating system level, you may need to re-verify if Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is   the desired default program to open and view PDFs.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

This doesn't happen using Outlook on Windows.

Are you using the Acrobat ribbon in Word to send the email? It's job is to convert the Word file to PDF.

[JResk]

I'm having the same issue, and it began alongside my paid Adobe Acrobat DC  .  A Word doc sent via email keeps downloading as Adobe Acrobat.  Super frustrating.  I should not have to adjust my email settings in the first place. Never had this issue until the subscription.  I found a workaround: