[Darkeforce]

That's crazy. There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to associate earlier
format of Word files with Word 2007 if it's able to open them. Not allowing
us to associate them like this seems like nothing more than a little, petty
"screw you" gesture. After all, most people still use DOC files, not DOCX
files.

"AnonyMous" wrote:

I have the exact same problem as you, but no one is replying to our posts
unfortunately.

"Darkeforce" wrote:

I'm trying to set Word 2007 as the default program to open DOC files, but it
won't let me. I don't want to have to go through and convert all my DOC files
to DOCX, and I know that using Word 2007 for DOC files means that I have to
use compatibility mode, but I'm content with that.

I have tried right-clicking a DOC document, and using "Open with...", but
even after I browse manually to winword.exe, it still won't show the option
to open in Word 2007 in the dialogue. I also tried going through Start -
Default Programs and selecting DOC files, but I got the same result; the
"Open with..." dialogue will not recognize Word 2007 as a viable program to
open DOC files.

I'm using Vista Home Premium