Re: Word insists on WordPad file format
- From: Rob B. <RobB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:12:01 -0700
That did it, Graham. Now most of my documents sport the Word icon and open in
that program. Jeez, it's so simple, but during years of using Word, I never
experimented with other word processors and never had to learn how to change
file/ program associations.
Now I'm going to look into converting those WordPerfect documents.
Thank you very much.
Rob B.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Right click a document in Windows Explorer..
Select Open With
Select Choose Program
Pick Word from the list and check the box to always open with this program.
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Rob B. wrote:
Thanks for replying.
I see what you mean; the file extension is still ".doc."
I did re-register Word as suggested. Nothing's changed. The files
still have the WordPad icons, and are still listed as "Wordpad"
documents, and launch WordPad when opened.
How can I change the program association of these files? I have
hundreds of them.
A related, but much smaller problem is that at least one document
that I created in OpenOffice (I was curious about other word
processors), then later modified in WordPerfect, now has the ".doc"
extension, and is noted as type "Wordpad," but opens as hash in
WordPad... and Word says it's a WordPerfect
6.x file and can't open it at all. Can I run some kind of converter
on that one (and a handful of others that may have the same
characteristic)?
Rob B.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Word hasn't done anything to your files. They are still Word
documents - provided you haven't saved them again from WordPad. It
is merely the file association in the registry that is confused
thanks to the installation of software that uses the same filename
extension - Word Perfect!. You should be able to correct it by
re-registering Word
How to re-register Word when problems crop up opening files
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm
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Rob B. wrote:
After uninstalling a trial version of WordPerfect, I installed MS
Office 2003 (Word and Excel). Right after that uninstall, before the
Office install, I found that my (many) text files had been converted
to WordPad files. They remained that way even after Word 2003 was
installed. I tried opening one in Word and using "Save As" to save
it as a Word Document. No joy. It remained a WordPad file.
Then I created a test page in Word and saved it as a Word
Document. It ended up as a WordPad file. When I click on it to open
it, it launches WordPad.
This is very bad. The conversion to WordPad has probably
permanently wrecked some documents with tables in them. I need to
get the remains of my files back into Word's format, soon. Any
thoughts? I'm running WinXP on my nearly new PC, built from
top-quality components. The PC runs very well.
Thanks,
Rob B.
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