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W. Explorer Opens Wordpad not Word
I'm on a new-to-me laptop. The OS is XP, Office is 2000. When I try to open a doc file with Windows Explorer, WordPad opens instead of Word. And it usually has problems with the file. I run the same software versions on my desktop with no problem. The document opens correctly if I open with Word. This happens on any Word document. I don't see an options in Explorer to make the default program for a .doc file Word.
What Happened? Or, more importantly, how to I fix this so Word is the default program for .doc files? Thanks! Alex |
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W. Explorer Opens Wordpad not Word
Can you right-click on a file name and get the "Open with" option?
These days, that will get you to a panel showing, or where you can browse through, all the programs on your system, with a box at the bottom to check for "Make this the default program for this type of file." (I don't know how it was back in XP, though.) On Apr 25, 5:18*pm, asallwey wrote: I'm on a new-to-me laptop. The OS is XP, Office is 2000. When I try to open a doc file with Windows Explorer, WordPad opens instead of Word. And it usually has problems with the file. I run the same software versions on my desktop with no problem. The document opens correctly if I open with Word. This happens on any Word document. I don't see an options in Explorer to make the default program for a .doc file Word. What Happened? *Or, more importantly, how to I fix this so Word is the default program for .doc files? Thanks! Alex -- asallwey |
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Ok, that did it. Now all is well. I forgot about that method of opening. Too used to double clicking I guess!
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W. Explorer Opens Wordpad not Word
So it wasn't something that ain't broke but they tried to fix it
anyway! (But will it still work in Windows 8?) On Apr 26, 3:21*pm, asallwey wrote: Ok, that did it. Now all is well. I forgot about that method of opening. Too used to double clicking I guess! Thanks, Alex Peter T. Daniels;494253 Wrote: Can you right-click on a file name and get the "Open with" option? These days, that will get you to a panel showing, or where you can browse through, all the programs on your system, with a box at the bottom to check for "Make this the default program for this type of file." (I don't know how it was back in XP, though.) On Apr 25, 5:18*pm, asallwey wrote:- I'm on a new-to-me laptop. The OS is XP, Office is 2000. When I try to open a doc file with Windows Explorer, WordPad opens instead of Word. And it usually has problems with the file. I run the same software versions on my desktop with no problem. The document opens correctly if I open with Word. This happens on any Word document. I don't see an options in Explorer to make the default program for a .doc file Word. What Happened? *Or, more importantly, how to I fix this so Word is the default program for .doc files? Thanks! Alex -- asallwey- -- asallwey |
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