Windows 10: Cannot open files word, PDF that I have saved in Explorer Windows 11

For some reason, I no longer can open any saved file word, PDF from Explorer. I also cannot view any of my saved photos.I did recently apply the recommended update for Windows 11 I am on a surface pro 8Can someone advise a fix please?

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PDF

Hello,

Regarding your PDF documents, the location will be based on where you saved the files. For your second inquiry, your documents can be converted to a PDF. If the original file is from Office Word, we suggest that you follow the steps below:

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  In Word, select File > Save As.
  
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  Select where you want to save the file.
  
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  Type a new File name if you want.
  
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  For Save as type, select PDF.
  
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  For Optimize for, select an option: Standard or
  Minimum Size.
  
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  Select Open File After Publishing, if you want to open the file after you save it as a PDF. This is selected by default.
  
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  Select Save.
  

If the steps provided is not working, please get back to us with the exact version of your Office Word.

Let us know the result of the suggested steps.

Thank you.

 

microsoft print to pdf files will not open after saving

We suggest that you save the PDF files on your device and check if the issue persists. You may also want to associate the PDF files to Microsoft Edge as the default program to make sure that you have a default application that will open all of your PDF files.
Here are the steps:

• Search for Default Programs.
• Go to Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
• Select the .pdf file type and then click the Change program button on the upper right of the
  Set Associations window.
• Choose Microsoft Edge and then click OK.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Search in Windows Explorer (Windows 11) not finding pdfs

I'm not sure I follow what you mean by that? Could you explain, please?

My problem is that I can't find pdfs doing word searches in Windows/File Explorer - it brings up documents in Word, Excel, etc but not any that are saved as pdfs. So, when I did what you suggested above on the Command Prompt, I saw all the pdfs listed (and I have many on my laptop) but I'm not sure what to do with that list. It confirms that the pdfs are there and recognisable but doesn't help me find the ones I'm trying to find with a key word search.