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Help with Word 2003

by TONI H May 2, 2014 7:58AM PDT

I have Windows 8, with Office Suite 2003 installed so I have Outlook for my email program. It's been updated with SP3.

I've run into a glitch that I can't figure out how to change in Windows 8 regarding file association. Everytime someone sends me a .doc file from Word, Windows 8 insists on opening it in Wordpad giving me mostly gibberish. How do I associate that file extension with Word instead?

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Re: Outlook

by Kees_B Forum moderator May 2, 2014 11:20PM PDT

http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-change-default-programs-in-windows-8/ should help.
Just set MS Word as default for .doc and .docx. If it isn't in the list, find winword.exe and browse to it.

Kees

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