Opening Outlook attachment in Word rather than Wordpad

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For some reason, whenever I open an attachment it opens it in Wordpad rather
than MS Word. Does anybody know how I can change it so Word is used?
 
Ken Roberts said:
For some reason, whenever I open an attachment it opens it in Wordpad
rather than MS Word. Does anybody know how I can change it so Word
is used?
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Change the file type associations for the .doc file type.
 

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