All word documents open up in WordPad instead of Microsoft Word

[Tim]

All of my Word documents show up and open up in WordPad
instead of Word even though they have the .doc extension.
Unless I go into Word and do a file-open on these files,
the files only open up in WordPad (severely messing up
formatting).

Is there a default I need to change somewhere so Word
documents show up with the Microsoft Word icon and so .doc
files open up in Microsoft Word instead of WordPad?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tommy]

-----Original Message-----
All of my Word documents show up and open up in WordPad
instead of Word even though they have the .doc extension.
Unless I go into Word and do a file-open on these files,
the files only open up in WordPad (severely messing up
formatting).

Is there a default I need to change somewhere so Word
documents show up with the Microsoft Word icon and so .doc
files open up in Microsoft Word instead of WordPad?

Thanks in advance.
.

 

[Tim]

Tommy,

I didn't see your response below.
Could you re-post?

thanks,
Tim

 

[Tommy]

Right click on any document with the .doc extension, then
choose Properties. On the General tab, by Opens with:,
choose Change, then choose Word and save your changes.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The Windows file association has changed. Change it back by re-registering
Word
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm


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