Try to restore file associations by typing winword /r in the Run
dialog box and pressing Enter.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"ggleavitt" wrote in message
...
When installing MS Office after a previous installation of
OpenOffice, all
.doc files are shown as soffice6.doc file type and the icons are not
converted to MSWord. There appears no way to re-convert these files
to
MSWord and manual intervention is required to allow MSWord to open
these
files (default is WordPad). Help/Detect and Repair does not resolve
this
issue. OS is XP Home.

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