weird new problem with Word (Office 10)

[J Harshaw]

OK, this started for no apparent reason 2 days ago...

1) Existing documents show 'document1' in title bar, instead of file
name.
2) If I edit the document, and then save, it wants to rename the
document with the first few words of text, instead of its old name.
3) It *will* let me overwrite the old file, though.

???
Suggestions welcome.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm .

 

[J Harshaw]

Seehttp://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm.

No change. Plan B?

 

[J Harshaw]

I should add that when I ran winword /r, a "preparing to install" box
popped up, and then nothing happened after that.

 

[Brian]

Has anything changed in your environment? Where are the documents stored? If
on a network drive has anything been updated that may affect the opening of
the documents.

Has your printer changed? (update driver)

Can the documents be opened on another machine correctly? (possible template
corruption) Having said that, Have you tried attaching a different template,
save as, then re-open?

I would review all the above. last first I think.

Hope this helps,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This suggests that the default operation for the documents has changed from
Open to New; that is, Word is treating the documents as if they were
templates. Assuming that the documents do have the .doc extension (and that
they were not saved as templates and the extension manually changed), then
this is a problem with file associations. Reregistering Word, which
reestablishes the file associations in the Windows Registry, should have
taken care of the problem, however.

Right-click on a .doc file in Windows Explorer. Which command is boldfaced?
If it is New rather than Open, then that is indeed the problem. Although
winword.exe /r should do the trick, you can also do this manually in Windows
Explorer through Tools | Folder Options | File Types. Select the .DOC file
type, click Advanced, select Open in the list, and click Set Default.

 

[J Harshaw]

This suggests that the default operation for the documents has changed from
Open to New; that is, Word is treating the documents as if they were
templates. Assuming that the documents do have the .doc extension (and that
they were not saved as templates and the extension manually changed), then
this is a problem with file associations. Reregistering Word, which
reestablishes the file associations in the Windows Registry, should have
taken care of the problem, however.

Right-click on a .doc file in Windows Explorer. Which command is boldfaced?
If it is New rather than Open, then that is indeed the problem. Although
winword.exe /r should do the trick, you can also do this manually in Windows
Explorer through Tools | Folder Options | File Types. Select the .DOC file
type, click Advanced, select Open in the list, and click Set Default.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:http://word.mvps.org
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Success!! I reset the default in file types -- worked like a charm.

Thanks to all!