All my Word files are now Wordpad files... Help!

[Guest]

Out of the blue, all my Microsoft Word files now have a Wordpad icon on them,
and all the Word formatting is gone. When I save a Word file, it saves it as
a Wordpad file... What is going on??? Any ideas out there?

Theresa

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [theresa]s message :

Out of the blue, all my Microsoft Word files now have a Wordpad icon on them,
and all the Word formatting is gone. When I save a Word file, it saves it as
a Wordpad file... What is going on??? Any ideas out there?

Theresa

Right click a word file > Open with > Choose program..
Select "Microsoft Word" from the list or browse to winword.exe file
Tick "Always use the selected program .." and click OK

 

[SmoothNinjaGirl]

and also watch what file format you are saving in word..

Replied to [theresa]s message :

Out of the blue, all my Microsoft Word files now have a Wordpad icon onthem,
and all the Word formatting is gone. When I save a Word file, it saves it as
a Wordpad file... What is going on??? Any ideas out there?

Theresa

Right click a word file > Open with > Choose program..
Select "Microsoft Word" from the list or browse to winword.exe file
Tick "Always use the selected program .." and click OK

 

[Guest]

Ok - this seems to have solved the problem. Thanks!!!

Replied to [theresa]s message :

Out of the blue, all my Microsoft Word files now have a Wordpad icon on them,
and all the Word formatting is gone. When I save a Word file, it saves it as
a Wordpad file... What is going on??? Any ideas out there?

Theresa

Right click a word file > Open with > Choose program..
Select "Microsoft Word" from the list or browse to winword.exe file
Tick "Always use the selected program .." and click OK