.doc saved as wordpad

[Guest]

When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved as
wordpad. How do I fix this?

 

[lostinspace]

----- Original Message -----
From: "BAK2MI" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:49 PM
Subject: .doc saved as wordpad

When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved
as
wordpad. How do I fix this?

TOOLS / OPTIONS / Compatability / Recommended Options for: / select file
type (not Word 6.0 or 97)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You need to "reregister" Word, that is, reassociate it with the .doc and
..dot file types in the Windows Registry. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I tried this and then did a test. Word documents still save as a wordpad
document and when I try to open them I have to right click on the document
file name and tell it to open with wordpad.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Why not right-click and tell it to open with Word?

On the Save tab of Tools | Options, what is selected as the default save
format?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Options was set to save as a word document. I did one more thing and that
was to remove my McAfee virus protection as I was where the documents were
being scanned and thought maybe this was causing an error. Well, I finally
had success once I removed it and now all documents are opening automatically
without having to right click to open with wordpad. I will reinstall the
virus protection and hopefully whatever was the cause will not come back
again. Thanks for your suggestions!