It's XP-Home SP2 with Office 2000 (Dutch)
I actually wanted to associate an unusual type with Word when I noticed this
was impossible.
It does work from another angle though: the file can be opened from within
Word.
By now I think the problem is not Word or Office related. There are other
apps not listed in the Open With... box that should be there.
I noticed some other odd behaviour from XP as well so this may well end up
in reinstalling XP.
Thanks Suzanne,
Flip



Suzanne S. Barnhill schreef in berichtnieuws
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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?

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message
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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
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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."

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message
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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
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Are you looking for "Word" or "Microsoft Word"?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Flip" FlipatKonitechPuntnl wrote in message
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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