Vista and MS Windows

I recently installed my MS Office on my Vista machine. For some reason all
my MS Word docs are in Word Pad. If I open from Word I have no problem and
they open fine but if I open from some other location like "Recent Items" I
get a screen with a bunch of garbage on it. Also when I create a new doc in
Word it has the .doc but in Properties it shows OPEN IN Word Pad
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Thanks!

Control Panel > Default Programs

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"Shaun" <> wrote in message
news:2F54EB97-D6C1-450D-8F4F-...
>I recently installed my MS Office on my Vista machine. For some reason all
> my MS Word docs are in Word Pad. If I open from Word I have no problem and
> they open fine but if I open from some other location like "Recent Items" I
> get a screen with a bunch of garbage on it. Also when I create a new doc in
> Word it has the .doc but in Properties it shows OPEN IN Word Pad
> --
> Thanks!

Sorry, This is a confict with Word, not Windows. Please help!!!!
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Thanks!


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

> Control Panel > Default Programs
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "Shaun" <> wrote in message
> news:2F54EB97-D6C1-450D-8F4F-...
> >I recently installed my MS Office on my Vista machine. For some reason all
> > my MS Word docs are in Word Pad. If I open from Word I have no problem and
> > they open fine but if I open from some other location like "Recent Items" I
> > get a screen with a bunch of garbage on it. Also when I create a new doc in
> > Word it has the .doc but in Properties it shows OPEN IN Word Pad
> > --
> > Thanks!
>
>

Shaun wrote:
> Sorry, This is a confict with Word, not Windows. Please help!!!!


Default programs is where you set file associations. Try re-associating
..doc files with MS Word and/or try running detect and repair form MS Word.
Frank

Shaun wrote:
> Sorry, This is a confict with Word, not Windows. Please help!!!!

What Cal Bear is telling you is to go into the control panel
and set your default program to Word. This will change the
file association of you word doc to Word instead of Wordpad.

gls858