Why are all my Word docs are changing to Wordpad?

From: debra (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/05/04


Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:29:56 -0700

In Windows explorer, right click on the document. Select
open with and see if it's associated with wordpad instead
of word. There's a check box at the bottom to set this
globally.

>-----Original Message-----
>does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fox this?
>.
>



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