Well, technically it's already open when you save it as a PDF in Word - just not in Adobe, etc. If you want to open the PDF in Adobe, you'll have to add code to do that (merely saving it via SaveAs2 won't cause it to do so). It should be fairly obvious from Greg's code that the ExportAsFixedFormat method can be used to automatically open the PDF.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]