All of the documents I create and save in Word show up as Wordpad
Documents...how can I stop this?

Check your file associations.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"kpitlvl" wrote in message
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All of the documents I create and save in Word show up as Wordpad
Documents...how can I stop this?

It sounds like the file associations are for WordPad instead of Word.
Go to Start/Run and use the following command to recreate your file
associations:

winword /r

Note the space before the forward slash.

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"kpitlvl" wrote in message
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All of the documents I create and save in Word show up as Wordpad
Documents...how can I stop this?

How do I do that?

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote:

Check your file associations.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"kpitlvl" wrote in message
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All of the documents I create and save in Word show up as Wordpad
Documents...how can I stop this?

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...gisterWord.htm .

kpitlvl wrote:

All of the documents I create and save in Word show up as Wordpad
Documents...how can I stop this?