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HELP I deleted the association for EXE files
He got MS Office XP and converted some .wps files (I think) to .doc format, but he decided against keeping the MS Office and now can't get Works to open the .doc documents. I changed the association of .doc files to the Works word processor, but when clicked on I get the following error: "Wksw has caused an error

Can't open .doc files from Windows Explorer
Your documents are just as they were, except that the associated program that automatically opens when they are double-clicked is WordPad, a basic text editor that comes with Windows. If WORD is correctly installed, then a simple association with its .doc files can be made this way... In Windows Explorer (your file

Office 4.2 and Office 97 on the same PC / How to associate ...
In .doc format, and in memory, they are integer byte-offsets from the front of the file to the numbering information or style information. In the case of list templates, these are structured Presumably you are a more capable coder than I, so you may have more success :-) You can't address the pointer directly.

Can't figure out XP
75214....@compuserve.com microsoft public word docmanagement Hi Donald, Did you try the Winword /R ? Bob Buckland ?:-) ============ <<"Donald Lawrence" DOC association and then selecting winword from the list after clicking on a .doc file. The first time winword opens with the selected doc file as one would

Automatic loading of Excel / Word files
But if you install Frame 5 after you have installed Office, then Frame will take over (from Office) the file association for the *.DOC extension. If you install the apps in this order and then double click on a DOC file, you will see the problem. Not always. I've installed Frame after office 97, and I got a weird

Double-clicking on Word 97 file gives bizarre error message
When a window open, try to find in that list WORD.EXE, CLICK on it and check the box infront of the sentence: "Always use that application for specific files" Then all Doc will open with WORD 2000. But still seems strange to me that WORD 2000 didn't change the association to DOC files. Good luck George ?

Wants Word 2000 CD
-----Original Message----- Find a DOC file and Shift+Right click on it, selecting "Open With" vs. "Open" and in the popup menu, scroll to Microsoft Word, then place a check mark in the box at the bottom to always open files of this type with the program. That will fix the association problem for DOC files.

Documents changed from MSWord to Notepad
Tim Sinkins timothy.sink...@alcatel-ke.de microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Ann, Everone's already addressed how you get your 'file association' back Both Word and Wordpad are still on your machine and can happily co-exist. Both will open a .doc file, but whilst word will read a wordpad file (and write it

File Associate Problem
Brian M. Baker brian-ba...@uiowa.edu comp os os2 misc In message <32D414CF. 6...@pckat.ecen.okstate.edu> - "Keith A. Teague" <tea...@pckat.ecen.okstate.edu>Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:42:39 -0600 writes: I want to associate *.doc files with MS-Word but it looks like *.doc files are already associated with the system editor

Non .doc files
There _was_ a generic DOC file type, however. Also, I found that, for the MS Word document file type : Edit | Application Used to Perform this Action needs to but rather Winword8.srg, which doesn't do anything when you 2-click it to reregister Word as in prior versions. The .srg files have no app association.

Wordpad vs. MS Word 97
My question is this: I have a lot of *.doc files that are for reading, not updating. Before I installed Office XP, I used either WordViewer or Wordpad to read them, because they are both smaller and faster than WinWord. Now XP won't let me use them. I know how to change the association in Explorer's file manager,

Solved 1st problem back to the original one
He pasted the image into a Word document, put that in a Rar file, and uploaded it. The message he is getting is "Cannot find the file FWIW I could open the .rar file but I could't extract the .doc file that I could see inside it. I'm not going to try updating my version of WinRAR just for this one question.

Adobe download screwed up my Explorer
Suzanne S. Barnhill sbarnh...@mvps.org microsoft public word newusers If you're using Open With, then you're not using Open. You would have to check the file association to see what action is designated as the default for that file type. Or perhaps Word is just defaulting to New for all non-.doc files.

Word97 and Word2000
Hi, I just reinstalled Word Viewer 97 after a format, and now all my Wordpad documents open in Word Viewer, but they can't be edited in that format. I can't change the association back because the DOC option has been deleted from the folder options. Can someone help me get these .doc files to open in Wordpad again?

Adobe download screwed up my Explorer
Suzanne S. Barnhill sbarnh...@mvps.org microsoft public word newusers It would appear that Works is still associated with the .doc file type. This will change the file association for .doc and .dot files from Works to Word. Also, if you open Word first, you should be able to open Word documents from its File

Can't open DOC file by clicking on it Help Please
DOC (Word 6 Doc files) ref. http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/faqs/ 001- Where can I find an in-depth history of the Apple II? A comprehensive Apple II History is ..... If a publication can't find enough II products 'action' to pay the bills, it has to find something else to talk about. Re-discovery My reason for

Netscape file associations
DOC file by clicking on it, it is opened with Word 97. If I need to open it with Word 6, I need first to open Word 6, then to open the file with the open dialog box. The .DOC files are indeed associated to Word97, and the .XLS and .PPT files are associated to Excel 5 and Powerpoint 4, respectively.

Can't start word by double-clicking DOC file in Windows Explorer
To do that, edit the file `Post.php` located in the `sf_sandbox/lib/model/` directory, and add the +following method: + + [php] + public function getStrippedTitle() + { + $result = strtolower($this->getTitle()); + + // strip all non word chars + $result = preg_replace('/\W/', ' ', $result); + + // replace all white

File associations and Word 97
Tevibear tevib...@aol.com microsoft public win95 filediskmanage Put %1% at the end of the command line for the association properties of the DOC file. No such problem in Excel or Publisher - files open normally. And no problem opening files from within Word or Netscape. There's another problem when I click on

Help needed: Explorer opens Two Instances of Word
The easy way is going to be using the "start" command (or "cmd /c start" on NT) to launch an existing .DOC file. That way Word will start as long as the user has .DOC files associated with Winword. You can close Word through DDE, though, using the "FileExit" WordBasic command. (*) Open/Close specified documents?