SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE.

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Globulin777

SOMEBODY seems not to be able to read stuff written in uppercase, not alone
that but SOMEBODY cannot answer a simple question with either the answer, or
perhaps "i will get back to you on that" or a plain and simple I don't know.

So here goes, I will pose the question again in the hope that someone who
can read uppercase lettering can answer it.
Any help would be much appreciated but if SOMEBODY just wants to PONTIFICATE
please let them do it SOMEWHERE ELSE.
(The a/m parts written in uppercase are fine because SOMEBOBY cannot read
them so therefore he will not be insulted BY IT)

..doc is not a valid Win32 application

THE ABOVE IS AN ERROR MESSAGE I RECEIVE WHEN I TRY TO OPEN (BY DOUBLE
CLICKING) A WORD 2003 DOCUMENT USING WORD 2007.
I CAN OPEN THE 2003 WORD DOCUMENT FROM WITHIN THE MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD 2007
PROGRAMME BUT THIS IS MUCH MORE CUMBERSOME THAN OPENING THE 2003 WORD
DOCUMENT JUST BY DOUBLE CLICKING ON ITS ICON, WHICH IS WHAT I WANT TO BE ABLE
TO DO.
i TRY TO SET THE FILE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DOCUMENT TO WORD 2007 BUT I CANNOT
AS WHEN I TRY TO DO THIS WORD 2007 IS NOT AVAILABLE AS A PROGRAMME IN THE
FILE ASSOCIATION LIST, EVEN IF I BROWSE AND MANUALLY TRY TO INSERT WORD 2007
INTO THE LIST OF PROGRAMS FOR FILE ASSOCIATION IT WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE LIST
OF PROGRAMMES.
I ALSO TRIED A REPAIR FROM WITHIN THE CONTROL PANEL AND THIS DID NOT WORK.
WHAT IS MOST ANNOYING IS THAT I INSTALLED OFFICE 2007 ONTO ANOTHER PC
RUNNING VISTA PREMIUM AND IT WORKS FINE BUT ON MY PC RUNNING VISTA BASIC,
WORD 2007 REFUSES TO OPEN ANY 2003 DOCUMENTS BY DOUBLE CLICKING ON THEM.
ANY HELP APPRECIATED AS I CANNOT FIND AN ANSWER ANYWHERE.....
THANKS IN ADVANCE
 
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Gordon

Globulin777 said:
SOMEBODY seems not to be able to read stuff written in uppercase, not
alone
that but SOMEBODY cannot answer a simple question with either the answer,

Ever heard of Google? Many answers to your question there.

Right-click on the file, go to Open With-Choose Default Program. Select
Microsoft Word. Check the box at the bottom "Always use the selected program
to open this type of file".

See if that works.
 
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Globulin777

Done that but winword will not show itself within the list of allowed
programs with which to open a .doc file.
I think this must be a reg key problem as the thing works fine in Vista
premium but will not work on vista basic.
I can't figure out which is worse, Microsoft Vista or Microsoft Office 2007.
Gonna have to get more PC aware and drop all Microsoft stuff altogether.#
Thanks anyway.
 
H

Harlan Grove

Peter Foldes said:
Are you trying to open a *.doc file in Office 2007 ??? Did you
install the compatibility Pack for that extension in Office
2007???
....

Uh, isn't the compatibility pack needed to open .DOCX files in Word 2003
rather than .DOC files in Word 2007? I thought Word 2007 has built-in
support for files in earlier version formats. No?
 
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Gordon

Harlan Grove said:
...

Uh, isn't the compatibility pack needed to open .DOCX files in Word 2003
rather than .DOC files in Word 2007? I thought Word 2007 has built-in
support for files in earlier version formats. No?


Yes it does.
 
G

Gordon

Peter Foldes said:
Are you trying to open a *.doc file in Office 2007 ??? Did you install the
compatibility Pack for that extension in Office 2007???



Office 2007 opens Office 2003 and prior documents natively.
 
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Globulin777

Hi, Thanks, yeah I am trying to open a .doc file with Word 2007.
It will open a .doc file but only from within the program and not by double
clicking on the file.
I thought the compatability pack was for earlier versions of Office so that
they could open Ofice 2007 stuff.
Office 2007 should open any docs created in earlier versions... or so I
thought
 
G

Globulin777

Yes I think you are right..... unless someone else has any other ideas on the
matter, but I think you have it the right way round.....
 
G

Globulin777

Thats my problem... Word 2007 will not open a .doc file by double clicking on
it....
It will however open a .doc file if I open the word program first and open
the doc from the menu
 
D

David Webb

Launch Word and check the menu choices under Help. If there's a Detect and
Repair option, run it. Note, it may ask for your installation CD before
proceeding.
 
G

Globulin777

Thank you Ben and thank you David, Harlan, Peter.
That option is not available under help but I ran it from somewhere else
(cant remember where ) and Microsoft scanned and diagnosed and found no
problems..
I thank you all once again for your replys and will move along because my
posts here seem to be popping up all over the place so I dont know why, i
guess this site must be linked to others and I think I am beginning to
confuse myself, half the time I cant remember my password even to log in.
Thank you all
again............................................................
 

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