Saving a document in Word saves it as a Wordpad document on my computer.
When I try to double click it MS Word is not even an option for me to open it
with. The same happens for Excel except that it saves as an unknown file
type. Anyone have any ideas?

Reregister Word and Excel with Windows.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"quegley2" wrote in message
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Saving a document in Word saves it as a Wordpad document on my computer.
When I try to double click it MS Word is not even an option for me to open
it
with. The same happens for Excel except that it saves as an unknown file
type. Anyone have any ideas?