Recent docs subbing WordPad to Open Word Docs - Help

[Marshy]

When I wish to open a Recent Word doc using the Recent list, it is now using
WordPad to open documents done and saved in MS Word. Therefore, I cannot use
the Recent list to pull up a recent doc as it will be all gibberish/code. I
need to go to New Office Document list and load a new MS Word document and go
to File/Open to get my document loaded correctly.

This is a new problem; Recent used to open a document with the application
it was created. I do not use WordPad at all; why is it doing this and how
can I fix it?

thanks

 

[RacingSnake65]

Marshy,
It sounds as if your Windows File Association has lost track of which
application to open .doc files with. To re-associate .doc files with MS Word
- e.g. in Windows XP:
Open up My Computer and hit 'Tools' -> 'Folder Options'. Choose the 'File
Types' tab. Scroll down the alphabetic list to 'DOC' (you may have several
variations like 'DOCHTML', 'DOCM', 'DOCX' depending on your Office version.
Select DOC and if the 'Details for 'DOC' extension' area at the foot of the
dialogue box shows 'Opens with: Wordpad' hit the 'Change' button and pick
'Word' then Apply & OK.
Hope that helps.
Geoff

 

[Marshy]

Marshy,
It sounds as if your Windows File Association has lost track of which
application to open .doc files with. To re-associate .doc files with MS Word
- e.g. in Windows XP:
Open up My Computer and hit 'Tools' -> 'Folder Options'. Choose the 'File
Types' tab. Scroll down the alphabetic list to 'DOC' (you may have several
variations like 'DOCHTML', 'DOCM', 'DOCX' depending on your Office version.
Select DOC and if the 'Details for 'DOC' extension' area at the foot of the
dialogue box shows 'Opens with: Wordpad' hit the 'Change' button and pick
'Word' then Apply & OK.
Hope that helps.
Geoff

 

[Marshy]

RacingSnake65:

Thanks; makes sense but does not get me there in my Vista OS. When I go to
Computer, I get a screen showing disks and no File listing at top. So, I am
stuck. But will try and see if some way to get something like what you
offered to work with Vista. I admit I am new to Vista and prefer and am
accustomed to using the XP Professional OS and not the new Vista Home edition
on my new Dell XPS.

marsy

 

[RacingSnake65]

OK - Vista is different, so check out this link where they explain how to
find the same setting:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6172036.html
That should do the trick

 

[Marshy]

OK - Vista is different, so check out this link where they explain how to
find the same setting:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6172036.html
That should do the trick

RacingSnake65:

That does it; thanks for such great follow through to fix!!

Marshy