Thanks Daniel, All fixed now, I knew it was somewhere, picture icons are nice 
but not if you trying to find something quickly. Rick.
On 15/05/2013, at 11:21 AM, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the Finder, go to the View menu and choose "Show View Options".
> Untick "Show icon preview". They will then show their "owners" icons rather 
> then the preview (e.g. Word documents, Excel, pdfs etc).
> 
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> Daniel
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> On 15/05/2013, at 10:22 AM, Rick Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, I have done that but I need to have the icons on the desktop as PDF 
>> Icons not images.
>> 
>> On 15/05/2013, at 10:08 AM, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Rick,
>>> 
>>> Right Click on File Icon
>>> Select "Get Info"
>>> Go to "Open With"
>>> Select "Adobe Reader"
>>> Then use "Change All" if you wish
>>> 
>>> On 15/05/2013, at 9:26 AM, Rick Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Can someone please tell me how to show pdfs as the Acrobat Icons not as 
>>>> Image Icons on the desktop. I saw it somewhere in preferences but can't 
>>>> find it again.
>>>> Thanks, Rick.
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