MS Word Viewer files

[Guest]

All of my Word files have suddenly turned into Viewer files, and when I save
a new Word file it saves it as a Viewer file. My preferences are set to save
as a .doc file. How do I correct this?

 

[Jay Freedman]

There is no such thing as a "Viewer file". If you double-click a .doc
file and it opens in the Word Viewer, that's because Windows has been
told to associate .doc files with the Viewer instead of with Word
itself. That can happen if you install the Viewer after you installed
Word.

To change the association back to Word, go to Start > Run and enter
the command

winword /r

and click OK. (See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm for more
information.)

Final question: Why do you have the Viewer installed on the same
system where Word is installed? The purpose of the Viewer is to let
people read Word documents when they don't have Word.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

I never installed Viewer. I came back to work after a couple of days away,
and all of my .doc files had little 'glasses' on them, so any file I opened
did so in Viewer. (the computer is left on all the time) your 'fix' appears
to have worked, but it would be interesting to now how Word decided to
associate the .doc files to the Viewer by itself.

 

[Jay Freedman]

If you didn't install the Viewer then somebody else did, because it
can't install itself. If you really care, ask your co-workers -- maybe
one of them is a practical joker.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

Its my home office, and only I have access to it. We don't have any
employees work from our home office.