how do I get my different office documents to show up as office do

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I updated my computer and now have windows XP Home ed - I installed my old
Office XP suite - and now my different docs (Word, Excell, and Powerpoint)
show up either as Text Notepad, or generic windows documents - how do I get
them to show up as the different office docs???

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

It sounds like your file associations got messed up somehow. Assuming you
installed it properly and it was a complete install:

How to change file associations in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307859

 

[Beth Melton]

Try recreating the file associations for the applications. Go to
Start/Run and run the following for each Office application you have
installed:

winword /r
excel /regserver
powerpnt /regserver
msaccess /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

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