File Association

[Dave]

Windows 7 Home Premium 64, IE Explorer 8 and MS Office 2010.
When I get an attachment via hotmail or gmail, that has an attachment docx,
if I right-click on it and click "open" the attachment will open with
WordPad. I have checked the file association and it is associated with MS
Word, but word won't open it that way.
Thanks,
Dave

 

[Peter Foldes]

Dave

Is your Office 2010 a Trial version that came with your computer or is it an Office
version that you purchased separately and installed in your computer yourself

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[Dave]

Dave

Is your Office 2010 a Trial version that came with your computer or is it
an Office version that you purchased separately and installed in your
computer yourself

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Windows 7 Home Premium 64, IE Explorer 8 and MS Office 2010.
When I get an attachment via hotmail or gmail, that has an attachment
docx, if I right-click on it and click "open" the attachment will open
with WordPad. I have checked the file association and it is associated
with MS Word, but word won't open it that way.
Thanks,
Dave

It's a retail version I purchased and installed myself.
Dave

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Windows 7 Home Premium 64, IE Explorer 8 and MS Office 2010.
When I get an attachment via hotmail or gmail, that has an attachment docx,
if I right-click on it and click "open" the attachment will open with
WordPad. I have checked the file association and it is associated with MS
Word, but word won't open it that way.
Thanks,
Dave

Dis you look at the system-wide file association or the one in your mail
program?

 

[Bob]

5 Ways to Open docx Word Document Files

http://www.tothepc.com/archives/5-ways-to-open-docx-word-document-files/

 

[Jeff Layman]

Windows 7 Home Premium 64, IE Explorer 8 and MS Office 2010.
When I get an attachment via hotmail or gmail, that has an attachment
docx, if I right-click on it and click "open" the attachment will open
with WordPad. I have checked the file association and it is associated
with MS Word, but word won't open it that way.
Thanks,
Dave

Can this help?:
http://www.nirmaltv.com/2010/02/23/default-programs-editor-for-windows/

 

[Dave]

Dis you look at the system-wide file association or the one in your mail
program?

I looked at they system-wide, I couldn't find a way to associate files under
Windows Live Mail.
Dave

 

[Dave]

5 Ways to Open docx Word Document Files

http://www.tothepc.com/archives/5-ways-to-open-docx-word-document-files/

Windows 7 Home Premium 64, IE Explorer 8 and MS Office 2010.
When I get an attachment via hotmail or gmail, that has an attachment
docx, if I right-click on it and click "open" the attachment will open
with WordPad. I have checked the file association and it is associated
with MS Word, but word won't open it that way.
Thanks,
Dave

Thanks for the tip, but I don't have any trouble opening a docx with Word
2010, I just have trouble getting Word to open it when I right-click on a
file with a docx extension. For some reason it opens with Word-Pad instead.
Dave

 

[Dave]

Can this help?:
http://www.nirmaltv.com/2010/02/23/default-programs-editor-for-windows/

Jeff,
Thanks for the tip. I downloaded this and after playing with it for a short
time was able to make the changes I need for the open command to use Word.
For some reason, I save it to the registry, it will work one time and the
next time I use the open command it has changed back to WordPad. I can
change it, save it to registry, go back to main menu, drill through the
selections and the open command for docx is changed to WordPad.
I think my computer has a ghost. :-D
Dave

 

[Jeff Layman]

Jeff,
Thanks for the tip. I downloaded this and after playing with it for a
short time was able to make the changes I need for the open command to use
Word. For some reason, I save it to the registry, it will work one time
and the next time I use the open command it has changed back to WordPad. I
can change it, save it to registry, go back to main menu, drill through
the selections and the open command for docx is changed to WordPad.
I think my computer has a ghost. :-D
Dave

Weird! Just a suggestion - what happens if you rename wordpad.exe (or
temporarily move it from "%ProgramFiles%\Windows
NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe"? Do you get an error message of any sort saying
the file association cannot be made?

Out of interest, in Control Panel - All Control Panel items - Default
programs if you change the "Set associations" to Word for docx does "Set
default programs" have the same thing for Word, or is it still Wordpad?

Another thought. Are you making the change as an administrator, or under a
standard account?

 

[Dave]

Weird! Just a suggestion - what happens if you rename wordpad.exe (or
temporarily move it from "%ProgramFiles%\Windows
NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe"? Do you get an error message of any sort
saying the file association cannot be made?

Out of interest, in Control Panel - All Control Panel items - Default
programs if you change the "Set associations" to Word for docx does "Set
default programs" have the same thing for Word, or is it still Wordpad?

Another thought. Are you making the change as an administrator, or under
a standard account?

In control panel, default programs > set default programs > set program
associations docx is associated with Word.
Word isn't listed under programs but WordPad is, if I select WordPad it says
it is associated with 0 out of 4 extensions. If I select "set associations
for this program" docx is in this list and is shown as associated with Word.
Disregard the previous info, as I typed this it dawned on me that the
association was different than it had been before so I tried the open on an
attachment and it opened in Word. I guess I needed to reboot after changes
for the registry to utilize the new info. Just to be safe I went back into
Admin, opened the program you gave me a link to and found the association
was still Word.
One other thing, I don't know how significant this is, but I couldn't rename
or move WordPad from it's native folder. If I tried to rename WordPad it
just ignored the change, if I tried to rename the exe to tmp I got an error
message saying I needed permission from the Trusted Installer, even when I
was in Admin.
Anyway, all is good now and I thank you for your help.
Dave

 

[Jeff Layman]

In control panel, default programs > set default programs > set program
associations docx is associated with Word.
Word isn't listed under programs but WordPad is, if I select WordPad it
says it is associated with 0 out of 4 extensions. If I select "set
associations for this program" docx is in this list and is shown as
associated with Word.
Disregard the previous info, as I typed this it dawned on me that the
association was different than it had been before so I tried the open on
an attachment and it opened in Word. I guess I needed to reboot after
changes for the registry to utilize the new info. Just to be safe I went
back into Admin, opened the program you gave me a link to and found the
association was still Word.
One other thing, I don't know how significant this is, but I couldn't
rename or move WordPad from it's native folder. If I tried to rename
WordPad it just ignored the change, if I tried to rename the exe to tmp I
got an error message saying I needed permission from the Trusted
Installer, even when I was in Admin.
Anyway, all is good now and I thank you for your help.
Dave

YW.

 

[Panic]

When you right click the docx file and choose Open With... if MS Word is
already there and you choose it, it will open in Word that one time. To
effect a permanent change to Word you must click a checkmark before "always
use this program for this type file". If that is not showing, click on
Browse, find the program you want and click a checkmark before "always use
this program for this type file".

 

[Dave]

When you right click the docx file and choose Open With... if MS Word is
already there and you choose it, it will open in Word that one time. To
effect a permanent change to Word you must click a checkmark before
"always use this program for this type file". If that is not showing,
click on Browse, find the program you want and click a checkmark before
"always use this program for this type file".

Thanks for the tip.
Dave