Word 2000/wordpad conflict

[Reg]

The computer: HP pavillion a260n with a 2.6 Ghz Pent 4
running XP home.

The problem: Wordpad came on the machine. Word did not.
Older programs including Word documents were transfered
via (old)hard drive to (new)hard drive. The documents
changed from Word to Wordpad. Later Word 2000 was
installed.

When opening the My documents folder the Word documents
all have Wordpad icons. When trying to email Word
documents as attachments they try to travel as Wordpad
documents. The machine will not open many Word documents
from a CD. Others it will from the same CD even though all
are Word documents.

It is as though Wordpad is the default medium. The
machine is trying to change everything to Wordpad.

How can I make this stop?

Reg

 

[Jezebel]

Open Windows Explorer. Go to Tools > Folder Options > File Types. Scroll
down to DOC. Click Change. Select Microsoft Word.

 

[Graham Mayor]

From the Windows start menu > run type Winword /r. This will re-register
Word which will correct its file associations.

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[Reg]

Thanksk to all, I fixed part of it the same night by
opening Word documents folder, right clicking on a
(Wordpad)document, selected properties. Here it stated it
was a wordpad document and gave me the options to change
it. I changed it to open as a Word document. When I
closed the dialog box all of the icons changed to Word
icons and now open as Word documents.

When I try opening any document from the CD the top menu
bar and the shortened bar on the taskbar flash on and off
and the document does not open.

 

[Guest]

Graham,

Typing in Winword /r acted like something happed but
nothing did. No document opens from a CD. I just get the
flashing bars.

Jezebel,

There is no Folder option in Tools.

Any other ideas?

Reg

 

[Graham Mayor]

What happened was that Word was re-registered!

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[Reg]

What's with the flashing menu bar and taskbar? What is
needed to open documents from a CD?

Reg

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

What's with the flashing menu bar and taskbar? What is
needed to open documents from a CD?

That problem (as thousans of previous posts will attest) is generally due to
the crummy Norton AntiVirus software. Disable its Office Plug-in.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You should not open documents from a CD as Word cannot create its temporary
files in the document folder. Copy to the hard drive and make sure the
read-only flag is not set.


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