Word docs wanting to open in Office

[susan]

I don't have Office but for some reason all my Word documents want to
open in Office and I get an error message that says I need to order the
software. I can open them directly through Word but I would like to
save a few important docs on the desktop so I can directly open them.
Any suggestions?

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I don't have Office but for some reason all my Word documents want to
open in Office and I get an error message that says I need to order the
software. I can open them directly through Word but I would like to
save a few important docs on the desktop so I can directly open them.
Any suggestions?

"Office" isn't the name of any application I know. It's just a collection of
applications, including Word. Or do you mean "OpenOffice" or something like
that? Select one .doc file in the Finder, do a Get Info (cmd-I, or
control-click and choose get Info), select "Opens With" , select Microsoft
Word (browse to it if need be), then ***click "Change All" button. Now all
Word files with .doc extension and/or made by Word Mac will open in Word
when double-clicked.

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[CyberTaz]

Did you happen to have the Test Drive program installed? That must be
_completely_ uninstalled
HTH |:>)
, including emptying the Trash. What you describe is symptomatic of that.