All word docs automatically open as an attachment in Outlook 2003

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I am extreamly frustrated and really hope someone can help. I have Office
2003. And every single time I try to open a word document from a folder,
Outlook opens and the word document I wanted to view/edit, is attached as a
fild in an empty outlook email message shell. If I try to open any attached
word documents from my email in outlook. Again it opens an empty outlook
email message shell. The only way I can view my word documents is if I open
Word first and then find the document using the open command in Word. If any
one can help I would greatly appreciate it.
 
There could be more to this, but it sounds like your file associations got
messed up. Try this:

1. Open Windows Explorer and browse to a folder that has a Word document in
it.
2. Right-click that file and highlight "Open With", and click "Choose
Program".
3. Scroll down and single-click on "Microsoft Word" to select it.
4. Click the "Always use this program to open these files" checkbox.
5. Click "OK".
6. Exit Word
7. Try double-clicking on this same document to see that it opens in Word.
Repeat on other files just to make sure.
 
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