How eliminate Word Pad as Word's default save

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Guest

I loaded new version of Office 2003. Word now saves to Word Pad inspite of
my going to "help" and attempting to set the default (which already had Word
indicated). It says it is saving to word, but only saves to Word Pad.
 
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Charles Kenyon

How do you tell that it is saving to Word Pad? By what opens when you
double-click the file or the appearance of the icon? If so, you need to
reregister Word. Try using the Run feature of the Start menu and run:
winword.exe /r

Note the space between the program and the /.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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G

Guest

Thanks, this was perfect.

Charles Kenyon said:
How do you tell that it is saving to Word Pad? By what opens when you
double-click the file or the appearance of the icon? If so, you need to
reregister Word. Try using the Run feature of the Start menu and run:
winword.exe /r

Note the space between the program and the /.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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Suzanne S. Barnhill

For Excel I believe you have to use Excel.exe /regserver

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

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G

Guest

Yep...that did it...thanks so much...

Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
For Excel I believe you have to use Excel.exe /regserver

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

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