ms word 2003 help

[Guest]

everytime I create a document in ms word 2003 and try to save it, it saves as
a wordpad document. can anyone help and tell me why this happens. also what
should I do to get my documents to save as ms word.?

 

[Rob Schneider]

There really is no such thing as a WordPad document. The file created by
Word is surely a Word Doc file (unless you "File/Save as" something
else). What you perceive as a Word Pad document is probably beause when
you double click on the document file name (via Explorer), XP launches
Word Pad then opens the file? Wordpad can read/write Word doc file
format. If yes, this caused by the file extension DOC being associated
in XP with WordPad, not Word. Read in XP's help about "file
association" to see how to change the association back to Word.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Gord Dibben]

mep

I would suspect that Rob's advice is spot on but another idea.....

In Word, what is the default "save as" found in Tools>Options>Save "default
format"?

Gord Dibben Excel MVP