Word 2002 on Vista

Good Morning - I installed my XP Small Business Enterprise onto a new laptop
with Vitsa. From this install Outlook and Excel work fine, but Word does not
allow the saving of Word documents, it defaults to Wordpad. I cannot also
open Word documents from my external drive in Word either. Is there an
update or something I need to enable this? Or, is there a setting that needs
changing? I am not a hugely experienced IT hardware person, so any help you
can give would be appreciated.

word 2002 works with vista

go to open with> and select word and chose to always open with that program.

make sure you are saveing in doc and not rtf


"MoodyBlue" <MoodyBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Good Morning - I installed my XP Small Business Enterprise onto a new
> laptop
> with Vitsa. From this install Outlook and Excel work fine, but Word does
> not
> allow the saving of Word documents, it defaults to Wordpad. I cannot also
> open Word documents from my external drive in Word either. Is there an
> update or something I need to enable this? Or, is there a setting that
> needs
> changing? I am not a hugely experienced IT hardware person, so any help
> you
> can give would be appreciated.

"Tiberius" wrote:

> word 2002 works with vista
>
> go to open with> and select word and chose to always open with that program.
>
> make sure you are saveing in doc and not rtf
>
>
> "MoodyBlue" <MoodyBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:20C65042-7659-4FBA-AB11-F76684FCB31F@microsoft.com...
> > Good Morning - I installed my XP Small Business Enterprise onto a new
> > laptop
> > with Vitsa. From this install Outlook and Excel work fine, but Word does
> > not
> > allow the saving of Word documents, it defaults to Wordpad. I cannot also
> > open Word documents from my external drive in Word either. Is there an
> > update or something I need to enable this? Or, is there a setting that
> > needs
> > changing? I am not a hugely experienced IT hardware person, so any help
> > you
> > can give would be appreciated.
>
>
>

Hi Tiberius

I have done this already, but it makes no difference.

Hi - I have tried this and it still doesn't work.

"Tiberius" wrote:

> word 2002 works with vista
>
> go to open with> and select word and chose to always open with that program.
>
> make sure you are saveing in doc and not rtf
>
>
> "MoodyBlue" <MoodyBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:20C65042-7659-4FBA-AB11-F76684FCB31F@microsoft.com...
> > Good Morning - I installed my XP Small Business Enterprise onto a new
> > laptop
> > with Vitsa. From this install Outlook and Excel work fine, but Word does
> > not
> > allow the saving of Word documents, it defaults to Wordpad. I cannot also
> > open Word documents from my external drive in Word either. Is there an
> > update or something I need to enable this? Or, is there a setting that
> > needs
> > changing? I am not a hugely experienced IT hardware person, so any help
> > you
> > can give would be appreciated.
>
>
>

its better to post in this newsgroup>>>>

microsoft.public.office.misc

they know all the problems and might help you faster

"MoodyBlue" <MoodyBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Tiberius" wrote:
>
>> word 2002 works with vista
>>
>> go to open with> and select word and chose to always open with that
>> program.
>>
>> make sure you are saveing in doc and not rtf
>>
>>
>> "MoodyBlue" <MoodyBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:20C65042-7659-4FBA-AB11-F76684FCB31F@microsoft.com...
>> > Good Morning - I installed my XP Small Business Enterprise onto a new
>> > laptop
>> > with Vitsa. From this install Outlook and Excel work fine, but Word
>> > does
>> > not
>> > allow the saving of Word documents, it defaults to Wordpad. I cannot
>> > also
>> > open Word documents from my external drive in Word either. Is there an
>> > update or something I need to enable this? Or, is there a setting that
>> > needs
>> > changing? I am not a hugely experienced IT hardware person, so any
>> > help
>> > you
>> > can give would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hi Tiberius
>
> I have done this already, but it makes no difference.