Double-Click Opens Template Instead of New Doc

[Judy Haynes]

Yesterday I was surprised when I double-clicked on a template in Windows
Explorer and Word opened the .DOT, instead of the new document I expected.
I'm running Windows XP and Word 2003, but the same thing happened on a MAC
with a template I had created. Any ideas why?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you right-click on a .dot file, which menu item is in bold--New or Open?
If it's open, then the file association needs to be repaired. The easiest
way to do this is to reregister Word. Click Start | Run and type

winword /r

then press Enter.

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

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