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Strange .doc icons and context menu issue. Please help!
I've just installed Windows 7, and right afterwards Office 2003. I've
noticed, that while .rtf documents had the normal Word icons, the .doc documents were still associated with Wordpad. Manually, using the "Open with" menu I've re-associated .doc files by default with Word. When I double click on them Word opens them, however the icons of the .doc files are different from those of the .rtf files. (Now their appearance refer to Word, but they are not the "original" Word icons. It looks like as if I associated an alien extension with Word, for example .jpg or .pdf. It seems as if Word wouldn't really like to recognize .doc files as its own.) Moreover, when on the desktop I do a right-click and select "New" I can create every file types of the installed Office applications (.xml, .ppt, ..mdb) except a .doc file, there is no possibility to create any Word documents that way at all. So according to the mentioned problems I think Word has some problems with managing its own file extension. I repaired and also re-installed Office, but that didn't help. Until now I used the RC version of Windows 7 but I didn't have this problem. If you could help me solving this issue I'd be very grateful! |
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I suspect Windows 7 will handle files in much the same way as earlier
versions with respect to registry associations. In which case you should be able to select the appropriate icon from those available in the file wordicon.exe which is saved with the installer files for Office. There are about 17 icons in that file that you can pick from. The process will no doubt be similar to that shown at the end of http://www.gmayor.com/Document_Not_Found.htm As Word 2003 predates Windows 7, it is not surprising if its installer cannot handle changes to the folder structure in the later operating system and may require some help. Word does not rely on the filename extension to determine its own file types, however Windows uses the extension to determine which application to use to open a file that is selected externally - particularly as more than one application may be able to open a particular file type. Your problem has nothing to do with Word 2003 per se, but with Windows 7 and the intricacies of associating files with applications in that operating system would be better address to a forum associated with Windows 7 matters. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Roland wrote: I've just installed Windows 7, and right afterwards Office 2003. I've noticed, that while .rtf documents had the normal Word icons, the .doc documents were still associated with Wordpad. Manually, using the "Open with" menu I've re-associated .doc files by default with Word. When I double click on them Word opens them, however the icons of the .doc files are different from those of the .rtf files. (Now their appearance refer to Word, but they are not the "original" Word icons. It looks like as if I associated an alien extension with Word, for example .jpg or .pdf. It seems as if Word wouldn't really like to recognize .doc files as its own.) Moreover, when on the desktop I do a right-click and select "New" I can create every file types of the installed Office applications (.xml, .ppt, .mdb) except a .doc file, there is no possibility to create any Word documents that way at all. So according to the mentioned problems I think Word has some problems with managing its own file extension. I repaired and also re-installed Office, but that didn't help. Until now I used the RC version of Windows 7 but I didn't have this problem. If you could help me solving this issue I'd be very grateful! |
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Strange .doc icons and context menu issue. Please help!
I don't think that this can be merely brushed aside as a problem with older
folder structures. Under Windows 7 Beta I don't recall having this problem, but under RC and RTM I have had this exact thing happen to me. It's not just the file that is changed, but the way that the OS handles DOC files in general. Generally I don't mind that the icons looked different, for me that is only the tip of the iceberg. The problem is with how the context menu works and how other programs recognize doc files. Oddly, this only applies to DOC files, other older word formats are fine. I have a program to handle large printing requests, PrintConductor, it recognizes that every other office suite program is installed other than Word. You cannot do a right-click - new - doc. You cannot open multiple word files at once if you select them. Moreover, you cannot print multiple word DOCs from the context menu, the same way that you would virtually any other file you just wanted to print but not open. Uninstalling/reinstalling, editing the registry to get rid of the Wordpad and notepad associations (not possible - at least for me), and installing Office 2007 all have had no effect. The problems is consistent over two installs of Win7 on two different machines; however, I loaded the programs similarly, so if there is a conflict I am creating, I suppose it is possible that this is unrelated to Windows 7 per se. Any ideas on how to address this short of wiping clean and starting over (not really worth it) would be great. Thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I suspect Windows 7 will handle files in much the same way as earlier versions with respect to registry associations. In which case you should be able to select the appropriate icon from those available in the file wordicon.exe which is saved with the installer files for Office. There are about 17 icons in that file that you can pick from. The process will no doubt be similar to that shown at the end of http://www.gmayor.com/Document_Not_Found.htm As Word 2003 predates Windows 7, it is not surprising if its installer cannot handle changes to the folder structure in the later operating system and may require some help. Word does not rely on the filename extension to determine its own file types, however Windows uses the extension to determine which application to use to open a file that is selected externally - particularly as more than one application may be able to open a particular file type. Your problem has nothing to do with Word 2003 per se, but with Windows 7 and the intricacies of associating files with applications in that operating system would be better address to a forum associated with Windows 7 matters. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Roland wrote: I've just installed Windows 7, and right afterwards Office 2003. I've noticed, that while .rtf documents had the normal Word icons, the .doc documents were still associated with Wordpad. Manually, using the "Open with" menu I've re-associated .doc files by default with Word. When I double click on them Word opens them, however the icons of the .doc files are different from those of the .rtf files. (Now their appearance refer to Word, but they are not the "original" Word icons. It looks like as if I associated an alien extension with Word, for example .jpg or .pdf. It seems as if Word wouldn't really like to recognize .doc files as its own.) Moreover, when on the desktop I do a right-click and select "New" I can create every file types of the installed Office applications (.xml, .ppt, .mdb) except a .doc file, there is no possibility to create any Word documents that way at all. So according to the mentioned problems I think Word has some problems with managing its own file extension. I repaired and also re-installed Office, but that didn't help. Until now I used the RC version of Windows 7 but I didn't have this problem. If you could help me solving this issue I'd be very grateful! . |
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Strange .doc icons and context menu issue. Please help!
This is not a Word issue, but an operating system issue. This would be
better addressed in a forum for Windows 7. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lance Truthhammer wrote: I don't think that this can be merely brushed aside as a problem with older folder structures. Under Windows 7 Beta I don't recall having this problem, but under RC and RTM I have had this exact thing happen to me. It's not just the file that is changed, but the way that the OS handles DOC files in general. Generally I don't mind that the icons looked different, for me that is only the tip of the iceberg. The problem is with how the context menu works and how other programs recognize doc files. Oddly, this only applies to DOC files, other older word formats are fine. I have a program to handle large printing requests, PrintConductor, it recognizes that every other office suite program is installed other than Word. You cannot do a right-click - new - doc. You cannot open multiple word files at once if you select them. Moreover, you cannot print multiple word DOCs from the context menu, the same way that you would virtually any other file you just wanted to print but not open. Uninstalling/reinstalling, editing the registry to get rid of the Wordpad and notepad associations (not possible - at least for me), and installing Office 2007 all have had no effect. The problems is consistent over two installs of Win7 on two different machines; however, I loaded the programs similarly, so if there is a conflict I am creating, I suppose it is possible that this is unrelated to Windows 7 per se. Any ideas on how to address this short of wiping clean and starting over (not really worth it) would be great. Thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I suspect Windows 7 will handle files in much the same way as earlier versions with respect to registry associations. In which case you should be able to select the appropriate icon from those available in the file wordicon.exe which is saved with the installer files for Office. There are about 17 icons in that file that you can pick from. The process will no doubt be similar to that shown at the end of http://www.gmayor.com/Document_Not_Found.htm As Word 2003 predates Windows 7, it is not surprising if its installer cannot handle changes to the folder structure in the later operating system and may require some help. Word does not rely on the filename extension to determine its own file types, however Windows uses the extension to determine which application to use to open a file that is selected externally - particularly as more than one application may be able to open a particular file type. Your problem has nothing to do with Word 2003 per se, but with Windows 7 and the intricacies of associating files with applications in that operating system would be better address to a forum associated with Windows 7 matters. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Roland wrote: I've just installed Windows 7, and right afterwards Office 2003. I've noticed, that while .rtf documents had the normal Word icons, the .doc documents were still associated with Wordpad. Manually, using the "Open with" menu I've re-associated .doc files by default with Word. When I double click on them Word opens them, however the icons of the .doc files are different from those of the .rtf files. (Now their appearance refer to Word, but they are not the "original" Word icons. It looks like as if I associated an alien extension with Word, for example .jpg or .pdf. It seems as if Word wouldn't really like to recognize .doc files as its own.) Moreover, when on the desktop I do a right-click and select "New" I can create every file types of the installed Office applications (.xml, .ppt, .mdb) except a .doc file, there is no possibility to create any Word documents that way at all. So according to the mentioned problems I think Word has some problems with managing its own file extension. I repaired and also re-installed Office, but that didn't help. Until now I used the RC version of Windows 7 but I didn't have this problem. If you could help me solving this issue I'd be very grateful! . |
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