Can't set 'Open With' to Word 2007

[Nicholas J]

Although I can access earlier versions of Word docs by opening Word 2007 and
then opening the document, when I double-click on an earlier document for
example on the desktop I can't set 'Open With' to Word 2007. I browse to
where I think Word is, ie. Program Files / Microsoft Office / Office12 /
Winword.exe but when I click OK it doesn't 'save' that location as the
default Open With. Have tried checking the 'always use' box.

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TmljaG9sYXMgSg==?=,

Although I can access earlier versions of Word docs by opening Word 2007 and
then opening the document, when I double-click on an earlier document for
example on the desktop I can't set 'Open With' to Word 2007. I browse to
where I think Word is, ie. Program Files / Microsoft Office / Office12 /
Winword.exe but when I click OK it doesn't 'save' that location as the
default Open With. Have tried checking the 'always use' box.

Hmmm. No problems here; it's actually part of the installation default.

Have you installed 2007 in parallel with another version? Over another version
(replacing it)? On a clean Windows installation?

(Note that you should probably take this question, with the additional
information, to the office.setup newsgroup, as you're more likely to encounter
specialists there)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Nicholas J]

Installed on new machine with Vista. Installed Office 2000 then uninstalled
before installing 2007. I;ll try the newsgroup as you suggest. Thanks