Installing MS Office after installing OpenOffice

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When installing MS Office after a previous installation of OpenOffice, all
..doc files are shown as soffice6.doc file type and the icons are not
converted to MSWord. There appears no way to re-convert these files to
MSWord and manual intervention is required to allow MSWord to open these
files (default is WordPad). Help/Detect and Repair does not resolve this
issue. OS is XP Home.

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[Stefan Blom]

Try to restore file associations by typing winword /r in the Run
dialog box and pressing Enter.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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When installing MS Office after a previous installation of OpenOffice, all
.doc files are shown as soffice6.doc file type and the icons are not
converted to MSWord. There appears no way to re-convert these files to
MSWord and manual intervention is required to allow MSWord to open these
files (default is WordPad). Help/Detect and Repair does not resolve this
issue. OS is XP Home.

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...fd783c&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement