You might try Help - Detect and Repair. Does that restore/repair the
associations?

If not, then take a look he

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q210565/

to see if reregistering via the /r switch helps. If the problem also occurs
with other Office applications, however, I suspect it's a broader
installation issue that can't be fixed simply by using Word's /r switch.

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When I copy a document from the network to my lap top, the document opens
in
Word Pad rather than Word. What is causing this problem and how do I fix
it?
I also noticed that PowerPoint files copied down do not open and do not
even
show that they are PowerPoint documents. This is a new lap top and the
Office SUite was installed on it recently.