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Open with... does not include Word
Hi NG,
With O2000 on XP-Home SP2 I tried openening a file with an unusual extension. Knowing the file, using Windows Explorer to get there I then press Shift+RightClick to open the 'Open with...' dialogue. Ok, this method is not necessary anymore, I 've done that too many times :-) The problem: Word is not in the list! I renamed the file several times with different or no extension without result. Word only shows up (recommended) in the list if a file already has the .doc (or .dot) extension. From within Word there is no problem opening 'strange' files. Reason: This is an old tric to quickly associate a filetype to a programme, Word in this case. Flip |
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Are you looking for "Word" or "Microsoft Word"?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Hi NG, With O2000 on XP-Home SP2 I tried openening a file with an unusual extension. Knowing the file, using Windows Explorer to get there I then press Shift+RightClick to open the 'Open with...' dialogue. Ok, this method is not necessary anymore, I 've done that too many times :-) The problem: Word is not in the list! I renamed the file several times with different or no extension without result. Word only shows up (recommended) in the list if a file already has the ..doc (or .dot) extension. From within Word there is no problem opening 'strange' files. Reason: This is an old tric to quickly associate a filetype to a programme, Word in this case. Flip |
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So I take it you did find it?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Yes, with W98 it was called Winword, with XP it is Microsoft Word for Windows Flip Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws ... Are you looking for "Word" or "Microsoft Word"? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Hi NG, With O2000 on XP-Home SP2 I tried openening a file with an unusual extension. Knowing the file, using Windows Explorer to get there I then press Shift+RightClick to open the 'Open with...' dialogue. Ok, this method is not necessary anymore, I 've done that too many times :-) The problem: Word is not in the list! I renamed the file several times with different or no extension without result. Word only shows up (recommended) in the list if a file already has the .doc (or .dot) extension. From within Word there is no problem opening 'strange' files. Reason: This is an old tric to quickly associate a filetype to a programme, Word in this case. Flip |
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Suzanne,
If the file has .doc you see a 'Microsoft Word for Windows' in the list If the file has no or someother extension there is nothing about Word in the list. In older Windows versions Word was listed as Winword. Other Officeparts (Excel, Frontpage) are there. Flip Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws ... Are you looking for "Word" or "Microsoft Word"? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Hi NG, With O2000 on XP-Home SP2 I tried openening a file with an unusual extension. Knowing the file, using Windows Explorer to get there I then press Shift+RightClick to open the 'Open with...' dialogue. Ok, this method is not necessary anymore, I 've done that too many times :-) The problem: Word is not in the list! I renamed the file several times with different or no extension without result. Word only shows up (recommended) in the list if a file already has the .doc (or .dot) extension. From within Word there is no problem opening 'strange' files. Reason: This is an old tric to quickly associate a filetype to a programme, Word in this case. Flip |
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I think I see now what your problem is. You are looking for Word on the Open
With context menu. You should instead be choosing Choose Program, which opens a list of all the apps on your computer. You can then select Word and check the box for "Always use this program to open these files." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Suzanne, If the file has .doc you see a 'Microsoft Word for Windows' in the list If the file has no or someother extension there is nothing about Word in the list. In older Windows versions Word was listed as Winword. Other Officeparts (Excel, Frontpage) are there. Flip Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws ... Are you looking for "Word" or "Microsoft Word"? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Hi NG, With O2000 on XP-Home SP2 I tried openening a file with an unusual extension. Knowing the file, using Windows Explorer to get there I then press Shift+RightClick to open the 'Open with...' dialogue. Ok, this method is not necessary anymore, I 've done that too many times :-) The problem: Word is not in the list! I renamed the file several times with different or no extension without result. Word only shows up (recommended) in the list if a file already has the .doc (or .dot) extension. From within Word there is no problem opening 'strange' files. Reason: This is an old tric to quickly associate a filetype to a programme, Word in this case. Flip |
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The file cannot be opened because its extension is unknown. A doubleclick
does give me a choice to either look on the Internet for a program or to to choose from a list. I choose the list, this must be the same list that you mean: A box with several apps, ther also is the checkbox "Always use this program to open these files." Winword or "Microsoft Word for Windows" simply is not in this list. There also is a button 'Browse' in this way I navigate to Programm Files-Microsoft Office-WINWORD.EXE This only brings me back to the Open With box which still shows the app list without Word sorry, Flip Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws ... I think I see now what your problem is. You are looking for Word on the Open With context menu. You should instead be choosing Choose Program, which opens a list of all the apps on your computer. You can then select Word and check the box for "Always use this program to open these files." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Suzanne, If the file has .doc you see a 'Microsoft Word for Windows' in the list If the file has no or someother extension there is nothing about Word in the list. In older Windows versions Word was listed as Winword. Other Officeparts (Excel, Frontpage) are there. Flip Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws ... Are you looking for "Word" or "Microsoft Word"? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Hi NG, With O2000 on XP-Home SP2 I tried openening a file with an unusual extension. Knowing the file, using Windows Explorer to get there I then press Shift+RightClick to open the 'Open with...' dialogue. Ok, this method is not necessary anymore, I 've done that too many times :-) The problem: Word is not in the list! I renamed the file several times with different or no extension without result. Word only shows up (recommended) in the list if a file already has the .doc (or .dot) extension. From within Word there is no problem opening 'strange' files. Reason: This is an old tric to quickly associate a filetype to a programme, Word in this case. Flip |
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What OS are you using? What version of Word? In Windows 2000, I always get a
list of all installed programs, whether the file extension is known or not (and in my case Word is listed as Microsoft Office Word). How else would you be able to associate unknown file extensions with a program? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... The file cannot be opened because its extension is unknown. A doubleclick does give me a choice to either look on the Internet for a program or to to choose from a list. I choose the list, this must be the same list that you mean: A box with several apps, ther also is the checkbox "Always use this program to open these files." Winword or "Microsoft Word for Windows" simply is not in this list. There also is a button 'Browse' in this way I navigate to Programm Files-Microsoft Office-WINWORD.EXE This only brings me back to the Open With box which still shows the app list without Word sorry, Flip Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws ... I think I see now what your problem is. You are looking for Word on the Open With context menu. You should instead be choosing Choose Program, which opens a list of all the apps on your computer. You can then select Word and check the box for "Always use this program to open these files." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Suzanne, If the file has .doc you see a 'Microsoft Word for Windows' in the list If the file has no or someother extension there is nothing about Word in the list. In older Windows versions Word was listed as Winword. Other Officeparts (Excel, Frontpage) are there. Flip Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws ... Are you looking for "Word" or "Microsoft Word"? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message ... Hi NG, With O2000 on XP-Home SP2 I tried openening a file with an unusual extension. Knowing the file, using Windows Explorer to get there I then press Shift+RightClick to open the 'Open with...' dialogue. Ok, this method is not necessary anymore, I 've done that too many times :-) The problem: Word is not in the list! I renamed the file several times with different or no extension without result. Word only shows up (recommended) in the list if a file already has the .doc (or .dot) extension. From within Word there is no problem opening 'strange' files. Reason: This is an old tric to quickly associate a filetype to a programme, Word in this case. Flip |
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