Word doc changes to Corel draw

[Mike]

Most of my Word documents have automatically changed their
association from Word to become Corel Draw docs.(.cdr)

If I click on the icon it opens up in Corel sometimes,
when this happens it is corrupted. If I open from within
Word it is okay but the properties still have it as a
Corel doc. Anybody ever come accross this before?

Also is their any way the Word backup file can be saved to
somewhere other than the default folder? i.e. to a cd
writer?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Mike,

For your first problem, you might find a solution in the article "How to
re-register Word when problems crop up opening files. Word files do not
open in the desired version of Word when you double-click them in Windows
Explorer, or when opening them from the Desktop or Explorer, a series of
messages appear claiming that the file cannot be opened." at:


http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm

For the second question, if you create macros with the names FileSave and
FileSaveAs (the two Word commands that are used to save documents, that
contain the following code, those macros will run whenever those commands
are invoked and as a result, a the file that has just been saved will be
copied (in the case of the following code) to the k: drive

Dim SourceFile, DestinationFile
ActiveDocument.Save
SourceFile = ActiveDocument.Name ' Define source file name.
DestinationFile = "K:\" & SourceFile ' Define target file name.
ActiveDocument.Close
FileCopy SourceFile, DestinationFile ' Copy source to target
Documents.Open SourceFile

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP