Can't associate .DOC files with Word

[airbear747]

Hello:

I am running Windows 7 on a 64-bit dell computer. We recently purchased and
installed Office 2007 Home and Student version. We are unable to associate
the .doc files on the computer with Word 2007. when we right click on a
document and go to "open with" dialog box, Word is not in the available
programs. When we browse to Word in the Program files (x86) folder and choose
Winword.exe. It allows the selection but the box to make the file association
true for all .doc files is grayed out.

The computer originally came with WORKS so we opened some of the documents
in that before we purchased word. It has since been uninstalled, but I am
wondering if there are some registry settings that need to be edited. Also, I
would like word to come up automatically as a choice in "Open with" instead
of having to browse to it everytime.

Thanks in advance - airbear

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Trying logging on to the computer as administrator and then set the file
association.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com