how do you turn word pad documents to word 97 documents

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Trudy - 27 Jan 2006 18:51 GMT

I work up a document in Word 97 and then save as word document but it saves
it as a wordpad document. I have tried saving as other documents and it will
only save as word pad document. Help

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Anne Troy - 27 Jan 2006 19:05 GMT

Sounds like your default file association for DOC is WordPad. Right-click
any DOC file and choose Open With (if you have Win98, you'll have to hold
the shift key down while you right-click to get the Open With option), and
choose Word, and tell it to "always use this...".
See "Associate the File types"
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/files_dont_open_when_double-clicked_in_micros
oft_office.htm
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

>I work up a document in Word 97 and then save as word document but it saves
> it as a wordpad document. I have tried saving as other documents and it
> will
> only save as word pad document. Help

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Stefan Blom - 30 Jan 2006 09:22 GMT

Alternatively, do the following:

Click the Start button on the task bar, and then click Run. Type

winword /r

and press Enter. This should restore the correct file associations.

For more information about startup switches in Word, see:

How to use startup command line switches to start Word 2003, Word
2002, and Word 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210565/en-us

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> Sounds like your default file association for DOC is WordPad. Right-click
> any DOC file and choose Open With (if you have Win98, you'll have to hold
> the shift key down while you right-click to get the Open With option), and
> choose Word, and tell it to "always use this...".
> See "Associate the File types"

http://www.officearticles.com/misc/files_dont_open_when_double-clicked_in_micros
oft_office.htm

> ************
> Hope it helps!
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> > will
> > only save as word pad document. Help

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