Re: .doc is not a valid Win32 application Help, help. help.

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Thanks for your help, I am afraid I got a little annoyed at one of the
Microsoft MVP's and may have gotten a little carried away in insulting him
but he was pontificating too much.
Please don't pay any heed if you come across any other posts as my replies
were intended to make him look in the mirror.
Thanks again Harlan and I will give it a go.......

"Harlan Grove" wrote:

"Globulin777" <Globulin777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
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The extension for doc files is as norman i.e .doc
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"GLOBULIN777" <GLOBULIN777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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.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.
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Maybe easiest to figure this out from a console prompt. Start a console (aka
DOS prompt) session and run the following command.

assoc .doc

That should show something like

..doc=Word.Document.8

If assoc doesn't show anything for the .doc extension, it'd be expedient to
fully UNINSTALL (caps OK for emphasis) then reinstall Office 2007. For Excel
at least you could use the Run dialog (hold down the Windows logo key and
press R) to run the command

Excel /regserver

Maybe there's something similar for Word. If assoc does show something for
the .doc extension, run the following command.

ftype Word.Document.8

If everything is OK, it should show something like

Word.Document.8="C:\Program Files\MSOFFICE\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE"

If not, again it'd be expedient to uninstall then reinstall.

If you're installing under Vista Basic, are you installing from a user
account with administrator privileges?



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