From: Tina Immormino Tina on
Recently something changed on my computer and now when I try to open MS Word
files the computer autmatically tries to change it into a PDF file via Adobe
Acrobat. It may have been an update I made? I do not want to open all Word
files as PDF and wonder if anyone can help me. It is now doing this for Word
file I create unless say "open with MS Word" and all email attachments
automatically try to open PDF

Please help if you can
From: Stefan Blom on
In the Start | Run dialog box, type

winword /r

and press Enter. That should restore the correct file associations for Word
documents.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Tina Immormino" <Tina Immormino(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7F1E51AD-135B-420C-ABE2-987D959FD02F(a)microsoft.com...
> Recently something changed on my computer and now when I try to open MS
> Word
> files the computer autmatically tries to change it into a PDF file via
> Adobe
> Acrobat. It may have been an update I made? I do not want to open all
> Word
> files as PDF and wonder if anyone can help me. It is now doing this for
> Word
> file I create unless say "open with MS Word" and all email attachments
> automatically try to open PDF
>
> Please help if you can


From: Suzie on
Also, if you right click on any word document (before opening it), Click on
Open With, Choose Program. A dialog box appears. Here you can select which
program will open the file. Choose Word, and then... there is a check box
"Always use the selected program to open this kind of file", make sure it is
checked before you click OK.
From: Stefan Blom on
Yes, that should work too, and sometimes it's a necessary step (when winword
/r simply doesn't work).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzie" <Suzie(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Also, if you right click on any word document (before opening it), Click
> on
> Open With, Choose Program. A dialog box appears. Here you can select
> which
> program will open the file. Choose Word, and then... there is a check box
> "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file", make sure it
> is
> checked before you click OK.