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Double Click does not open document
Hi,
I am using Word 2003. Until recently, I could open a word document directly from my desktop by double clicking on it. Now, however, when double clicking, the program opens but not the document. I need to either double click the document icon again or go FileOpen etc. I found something on the web to try (winword /r) but this hasn't solved the problem. Just wondered if anyone else has had this and how it can be resolved. Thanks |
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Double Click does not open document
I know this won't help you Steven - but I have passed on my laptop to my wife
and set her up as a new user - so all her documents are now stored in her new folders. When she double clicks a document name (Word 2007 in this case) Word starts up but the document cannot be found. It can only be opened either from the "most recently used" list or by going "File...Open" - a very similar problem and one that I feel sure has a simple solution. Anyone out there had this before and solved it? Please help! Keith C Parry (UK) "Steven" wrote: Hi, I am using Word 2003. Until recently, I could open a word document directly from my desktop by double clicking on it. Now, however, when double clicking, the program opens but not the document. I need to either double click the document icon again or go FileOpen etc. I found something on the web to try (winword /r) but this hasn't solved the problem. Just wondered if anyone else has had this and how it can be resolved. Thanks |
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Hi Keith,
Thanks for the reply - the same thing happens to me when I try to open a word doc attachement in an email. I forgot about that bit! Perhaps they're all caused by the same issue. Hopefully someone can help us... Steven "KPC" wrote: I know this won't help you Steven - but I have passed on my laptop to my wife and set her up as a new user - so all her documents are now stored in her new folders. When she double clicks a document name (Word 2007 in this case) Word starts up but the document cannot be found. It can only be opened either from the "most recently used" list or by going "File...Open" - a very similar problem and one that I feel sure has a simple solution. Anyone out there had this before and solved it? Please help! Keith C Parry (UK) "Steven" wrote: Hi, I am using Word 2003. Until recently, I could open a word document directly from my desktop by double clicking on it. Now, however, when double clicking, the program opens but not the document. I need to either double click the document icon again or go FileOpen etc. I found something on the web to try (winword /r) but this hasn't solved the problem. Just wondered if anyone else has had this and how it can be resolved. Thanks |
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Double Click does not open document
Hi
Since posting the query earlier I think I have solved the problem..... THe default application for .docx files in the settings was the Word VIEWER aplet and not Word as in Office As soon as I changed this then a double click on the filename in Explorer opens the documents each time..... Similar problem with .doc files as well. I have a funny feeling this may be the solution we were both looking for!!!! Good luck Keith Parry "Steven" wrote: Hi Keith, Thanks for the reply - the same thing happens to me when I try to open a word doc attachement in an email. I forgot about that bit! Perhaps they're all caused by the same issue. Hopefully someone can help us... Steven "KPC" wrote: I know this won't help you Steven - but I have passed on my laptop to my wife and set her up as a new user - so all her documents are now stored in her new folders. When she double clicks a document name (Word 2007 in this case) Word starts up but the document cannot be found. It can only be opened either from the "most recently used" list or by going "File...Open" - a very similar problem and one that I feel sure has a simple solution. Anyone out there had this before and solved it? Please help! Keith C Parry (UK) "Steven" wrote: Hi, I am using Word 2003. Until recently, I could open a word document directly from my desktop by double clicking on it. Now, however, when double clicking, the program opens but not the document. I need to either double click the document icon again or go FileOpen etc. I found something on the web to try (winword /r) but this hasn't solved the problem. Just wondered if anyone else has had this and how it can be resolved. Thanks |
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I had the same problem with Word 2003until I uninstalled the "Office Live"
add-on. I was not using it anyway and once it was uninstalled double clicking was back to normal. Let me know if it can work for you. "Steven" wrote: Hi, I am using Word 2003. Until recently, I could open a word document directly from my desktop by double clicking on it. Now, however, when double clicking, the program opens but not the document. I need to either double click the document icon again or go FileOpen etc. I found something on the web to try (winword /r) but this hasn't solved the problem. Just wondered if anyone else has had this and how it can be resolved. Thanks |
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I fixed the same problem the following way.
Left-click on START, Right-click on MY COMPUTER, Right-click on EXPLORE, Left-click on TOOLS, Left-click on FOLDER OPTIONS, Left-click on FILE TYPES, Scroll down the EXTENSIONS column (in alphabetical order) until you get the word DOC next to the Microsoft Word logo, and in the right column in the same row you read "Microsoft Word Documents", Click at this entire row to make at active (making it blue), You will see the button RESTORE down the same screen. You may read, before clicking RESTORE, about the changes which have been made with Word; that is why we could not open Word documents by simply double-clicking on it. Why these changes happened, we may never understand. In my case, they happened immediately after I downloaded some program to help me read the document with the extension "pages". Indeed, I could read after that this document with extension "pages" being created on Apple computer, but this program changed somehow the ability to open Word documents with simple double-click. Click the button RESTORE. You are done! Nothing else needed. You do not even have to click button OK to close the screen. But do it anyway. Now you can open the Word documents by doing double-click! |
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Go to "Tools" then "Insert...". Next, type in the exact web address you want. Then click "Finish". If you have any questions or problems, MS.com has an answer for it.
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