2 questions - warning message when trying to open pdf file & firefox vs IE

spacecaptainsuperguy

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  1. 365
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  1. Windows
Question 1:

I just learned how to create a custom menu and have added a menu item that links to a pdf version of an excel book I've got. When I click on the menu item to open the pdf I get the following message:

Opening "C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\etc etc\filename.pdf" Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer and data. To protect your computer, click only those hyperlinks from trusted sources. Do you want to continue? Yes/No

Obviously I trust the source, since it's me. The way I went about creating it is right click the toolbar --> customize and added a custom menu item which I then hyperlinked to the pdf via the right click menu options when customizing.

Is there a way to tell Excel that the source is trusted and not get the nag screen?

Question 2:

While creating custom menus I created on that takes me directly to the Mr. Excel forum but it opens in Internet Explorer instead of Firefox (which is my default browser). Any idea how to make it open in Firefox?

By the way. I'm in XP and Excel 2003.

As always...thanks in advance for all the help.
 

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