[Mikester]

I'm in word and every time I save a document it saves as a wordpad document.
I've checked my default format under settings and it is set to save as word
document. But, absolutely everything saves as a wordpad document.

Anybody with advice/comments????

[Jay Freedman]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:35:01 -0700, Mikester
wrote:

I'm in word and every time I save a document it saves as a wordpad document.
I've checked my default format under settings and it is set to save as word
document. But, absolutely everything saves as a wordpad document.

Anybody with advice/comments????

There is no difference between a "Word document" and a "WordPad
document" for what you're doing. The problem is that you have Windows
set up to open all files with a .doc extension in WordPad.

The simplest way to fix the problem is to re-register Word (that is,
reset the entries in the Windows registry that tell it that .doc is
associated with Word and not WordPad). Use the instructions at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...gisterWord.htm.

If you enter the command as shown and you get an error message that
winword.exe can't be found, then you'll have to locate the winword.exe
file -- use Windows search to do that -- and include the entire path
in the command, surrounded by double quotes like this (the number
depends on your version of Office):

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\winword.exe" /r

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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