Search feature won't find word documents

[Guest]

I recently installed Microsoft Office. I frequently download documents
which, when I click on them, open in Microsoft Works Word 6.0. I can open
them with Office Word and I save as a *.doc file but it doesn't help. I want
to make Microsoft Office Word My primary word processor and enable all my
downloaded documents to be accessible to the Windows Search function. How
can I do this? Thanks

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you save your downloaded documents to your hard drive first, they become
files like any other and can be searched. If you open them directly from the
e-mail and save them from Word in the default location they are saved in the
temporary file structure of your hard drive where they are effectively lost.

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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

It sounds like a file association problem. You don't say which version of
Word you're using. If it's Word 2002 or 2003, I would try Help - Detect and
Repair, and see if that fixes the associations. If not, then I'd try Tools -
Folder Options - File Types in Windows Explorer. Find the DOC extension, and
set it to open with Microsoft Office Word.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help. I did as you suggested with partial results but that
led me to reinstalling Microsoft Word which solved the problem. Yes, it was
a files association problem. Thanks again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Reinstalling was quite unnecessary. Reregistering (typing winword /r at the
Start | Run prompt) would have accomplished the same thing.

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

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