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DOC name in the Explorer window. Since DOC was associated with WINWORD.EXE, the document opened in the already-open instance of Word. My new computer, which came preloaded with Win-95 and Office-95, doesn't do this. When I have Word open and then double click a DOC file, the computer loads a second instance of Word

Help: can't open files
The problem is that after the Win XP installation, the list of installed components included Word 2000. This has never been installed in this machine. Somewhere in the nebulous installation process, the program file associated with the double-click on .doc files got associated with Word 2000.

Office 2K on Me, DOC association hard-wired?
To reset the association: Select a *.doc file in Windows Explorer. Shift-right-click it, and choose "Open with" from the menu. Choose Word from the list box, make sure the "Always use" box is checked, and click "OK". The selected file will open in Word and the association will be reset. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS)

Flame Bait! Windows vs: The Unices
Gregory Beyer greg.be...@swsbbs.com comp os ms-windows apps word-proc Thanks anyway, folks, I seem to have solved it by deleting the .doc association within file manager, and then re-creating the association. greg.be...@swsbbs.com (Gregory Beyer) wrote: I've got a problem with file associations. I've got .doc files

REQ: I can't read a .eml attachment in OE. - eml error ...
WHen I change the association of a .doc file to Word Pad, it opens normally from Windows Explorer. However, when I change the association back to Word, the faialure to open is once again present. My systems manager at work suggests it is a problem in WIndows Explorer and that I should repair Windows - a drastic fix

File Association
=20 If I open WordPad from the Start menu, it opens fine and I can open any "doc." file by clicking File/Open/ and the .doc file I choose. What can I do to be able to open these files from Windows Explorer like I used to be able to? Thanks Andy Gill winword.exe is MS Word. Apparently win95 has associated *.doc with

Can't open .doc document. W98SE
Ed, It is a problem that does not come up often but I think if you just go into File Types and view the association and then press OK (even without Following the instructions in Q166389, I unchecked DDE in the Microsoft Word Document file type. Then, when I clicked on a .doc file, Word opened and I got the

Associating MS Word files with MS Word
EXE) opens up in Word (lots of junk ascii text). I've tried correcting the problem using the shift+right click method...but that doesnt work. I've tried going into File Types, but no luck there either. I can't even find the .doc file association in that list - but when I try and add it, it tells me that extension

Dumbing-down, interfaces, and forward progress
Jim Morgan morgan_...@lanl.gov comp text frame as...@eden.com (astro) wrote: Why don't you just change the association in windows for .doc files to start Frame by default? In 3.1, 3.11 or NT, just open file mangler and choose file_associate with a .doc file highlighted? One problem: Then you can't open Word

How to avoid loading two Word97 sessions?
Lita deathtos...@fakespamaddress.com alt comp virus comp lang javascript Borris Bro wrote: <snip> How do you set up a different extension association that DOC file and then on "Open with..." you will be able to select if you want to open it with Word or Word Viewer (4) Ditto for .CSV files, but select an ASCII

Making Word 2007 default program for opening .doc files
Then windows mail says that I should set association for DOC using Control Panel. However, the association for .doc was already set in file association preferences. "Jill & Ellis" <jillandel...@t-online.de> wrote in message news:evGt9HPAIHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... If I receive a WORD *.doc file as an

Size of embedded Word documents
Unfortunately, the .doc extension is used by many programs to signify a Document file, so there's more of chance of this happening with .doc files than many other types. Again as Carl pointed out, the important thing is that the Word files did not get changed to Notepad format, only their association to a

Can't start word by double-clicking DOC file in Windows Explorer
I actually went ahead and created a new user account on Vista, and sure enough, I went to get a .doc file off the internet and automatically asked me if I wanted to save or open in Word 2007. Its like under the new account it automatically associated the file types. I expected that in the original account as well,

STOP IE from opening Office docs in browser
Alan Edwards edwa...@southcom.com.au microsoft public win98 apps Check your association for .doc files in Explorer-View-Folder Options-File Types. Doc files may be under "Microsoft Word Document". It should open with Winword, eg mine shows this as the application to open: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft

Wants Word 2000 CD
Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] kenslo...@worldnet.att.net microsoft public outlook usage You need to change the file association for the .doc file type. Open Windows Explorer and choose View|Folder Options. In the File Types tab scroll down to the DOC file type and choose Edit. It might be called Word Document or

Automatic loading of Excel / Word files
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:56:25 -0500, "Jim Walsh" <jimwa...@fast.net> wrote: My association for open (Word XP) has: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft One of my users has a problem opening Word documents from within Windows Explorer. If he double-clicks on a file with a DOC extension, instead of WORD starting,

MS-Word Opens Multiple Sessions
My proplem is getting .doc to actually associate with Word 97 and not Word 2000. Honestly, I'm not sure if it is the association or the OS not understanding the double-click on a file name. Excel works fine with a double click. Only .doc files are giving me a problem. "Don MacDougall" <dgma...@pgtv.net> wrote in

JS.Gigger.A@mm How in JS?
Suzanne S. Barnhill sbarnh...@mvps.org microsoft public word application errors I believe this problem is solved by "re-registering" Word (that is, reestablishing its association to the .doc file type). In the Start | Run box, type "winword /r" (without the quotation marks). Word will not actually start,

Control MS Word?
The association between my files and the applications is correct. Whern I double click on a .doc file, Word is correctly launched but the window is empty. The .doc file isn't loaded in the Word window. Any help would be much appreciated. Alain PS : I know that my problem is not directly linked with Eudora but I

Can Frame and MS-Word co-exist on same machine?
If you allow an existing version of Office to remain on the PC where you are installing Office2007, the data source association with the main document is not lost. a) .... The data source is a Word document (we've tried .doc and .docx). The files are stored on a network drive. An example of the path to the files,