All of a sudden MS Word started saving all my documents not as Word documents
but as Wordpad documents. The icon attached to the documents on my desktop,
in the Open File menu within Word, and in Windows Explorer are all Wordpad
icons, not Word icons. And when I double click a document originally created
in Word, now it opens it as a Wordpad dpcument in Wordpad. I CAN open the
documents from within Word and threy seem to work as Word documents, but Word
saves them as Wordpad files. Very irritating.

What can I do? What happened? I am using MS Word 2003.

Mark Richardson