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Word is, Word is more than I need
I installed Office Suite, Home/Student version, on my laptop (XP) to help my
son's schoolwork before he got his own computer. Now I want to uninstall it as I really only need WordPad, but all my files originally in WordPad can now also be opened in Word and IE and their icons have changed to a 'W'. If I uninstall the suite, will my old files be injured in some way? |
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Probably they will be reassociated automatically with WordPad. If not, you
can do that manually in Windows Explorer by shift+right-clicking on a WordPad file and choosing Open With. Then make sure that the checkbox at the bottom (always use this application to open these types of files or something like that) is checked and choose WordPad. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "pronker" wrote in message ... I installed Office Suite, Home/Student version, on my laptop (XP) to help my son's schoolwork before he got his own computer. Now I want to uninstall it as I really only need WordPad, but all my files originally in WordPad can now also be opened in Word and IE and their icons have changed to a 'W'. If I uninstall the suite, will my old files be injured in some way? |
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pronker wrote:
I installed Office Suite, Home/Student version, on my laptop (XP) to help my son's schoolwork before he got his own computer. Now I want to uninstall it as I really only need WordPad, but all my files originally in WordPad can now also be opened in Word and IE and their icons have changed to a 'W'. If I uninstall the suite, will my old files be injured in some way? No, your existing files won't be touched at all. When you installed Office, one of the things it did was to set a registry entry to tell Windows that Word is the application to open when you double-click a file with a .doc extension, and another to change the icon. When you uninstall Word, it should remove those entries, leaving WordPad as the assigned application for those files. If that doesn't happen correctly, it's easy to fix: - In Windows Explorer, right-click any .doc file and choose Properties. - In the Properties dialog, where it says what program the file opens with, click the Change button. - In the next dialog, select WordPad. Make sure the box for "Always use the selected program" is checked, and click OK. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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"Terry Farrell" wrote: Probably they will be reassociated automatically with WordPad. If not, you can do that manually in Windows Explorer by shift+right-clicking on a WordPad file and choosing Open With. Then make sure that the checkbox at the bottom (always use this application to open these types of files or something like that) is checked and choose WordPad. Thanks, Terry. pronker-- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "pronker" wrote in message ... I installed Office Suite, Home/Student version, on my laptop (XP) to help my son's schoolwork before he got his own computer. Now I want to uninstall it as I really only need WordPad, but all my files originally in WordPad can now also be opened in Word and IE and their icons have changed to a 'W'. If I uninstall the suite, will my old files be injured in some way? |
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"Jay Freedman" wrote: pronker wrote: I installed Office Suite, Home/Student version, on my laptop (XP) to help my son's schoolwork before he got his own computer. Now I want to uninstall it as I really only need WordPad, but all my files originally in WordPad can now also be opened in Word and IE and their icons have changed to a 'W'. If I uninstall the suite, will my old files be injured in some way? No, your existing files won't be touched at all. When you installed Office, one of the things it did was to set a registry entry to tell Windows that Word is the application to open when you double-click a file with a .doc extension, and another to change the icon. When you uninstall Word, it should remove those entries, leaving WordPad as the assigned application for those files. If that doesn't happen correctly, it's easy to fix: - In Windows Explorer, right-click any .doc file and choose Properties. - In the Properties dialog, where it says what program the file opens with, click the Change button. - In the next dialog, select WordPad. Make sure the box for "Always use the selected program" is checked, and click OK. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Thanks, Jay. I shall prevail. pronker |