File Association problems w/ Office 2K

[Richard Anderson]

I am running Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business on Windows Advanced
Server 2000. When I attempt to click on a Word or Excel Document from
within Windows Explorer or on the Desktop, I get the following
message:

"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing
this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control
panel."

However, when I attempt to open the documents from within Excel or
Word, they open just fine. I checked in the Folder Options control
panel and the .doc and .xls extensions are associated with Word and
Excel respectively. I even tried doing the repair and reinstallation
of Office, but to no avail.

From searching the other posts on this topic, the recommended solution
appears to be reinstallation of the product (which I did), but that
doesn't solve the problem.

Ideas? Any KB articles which at least acknowledges this prob?

-Rich

 

[Mary Sauer]

This registry fix will work with 2000
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Richard,

You can recreate the file associations for the Office apps by going to
Start/Run and running:

winword /r
excel /regserver
powerpnt /regserver
msaccess /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

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[Richard Anderson]

So which fix do I select? I didn't see one for Word (.doc) or Excel (.xls).

-Rich

 

[Richard Anderson]

This did not work. Any other ideas?

-Rich

Hi Richard,

You can recreate the file associations for the Office apps by going to
Start/Run and running:

winword /r
excel /regserver
powerpnt /regserver
msaccess /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

--
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[Richard Anderson]

?

This did not work. Any other ideas?

-Rich

"Beth Melton" <[email protected]> wrote in message

 

[Richard Anderson]

Okay,

So I finally did the right (debatable) thing and upgraded to Office
XP. All the file association issues are fixed except Excel documents
don't show the icon for the document as Excel, it shows up as the
"Windows Unknown" file type. When I double click the document, Excel
loads and everything is all good. Anyway to change this icon?

-Rich

Side note: It really is a shame that Microstupid can't get things
straight with their applications. At home, I use OpenOffice
exclusively because it has one feature that Office doesn't: It works!
Fortunately, my company president's ears perked up when he found out
how he could have a product that actually works and is able to open MS
Office documents for absolutely nothing, free!