re: office 2000 Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:11 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gordon (7 messages posted) office 2000 Thank you for your help. However, I have chosen the coward's route and taken it to my local computer whizkid, who did the job for me very quickl;y. On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 2:09 pm, Keith Stanier wrote: >gordon wrote: >|After uninstalling OpenOffice I have just loaded Office 2000 and find that I cannot >|open Word, although Excel, Power Point etc. are fine. > >Hi Gordon. > >Well I've never used OpenOffice but it appears that its left some reference to doc >file in the registry. > >Open Control Panel - Folder Options. Click on File Types and scroll down or >press D to goto the first D in file extensions list. Find what file opens DOC files, >it it the old OpenOffice then just press the Delete button and Yes to remove. Close >Folder Options and find a *.doc file on your drive. Double click it and use the Open >with dialog to find Winword.exe in Program Files\Microsoft Office. Make sure the >Always use the selected program to open this type of file is ticked. That >will associate all doc file to WinWord.exe. Written in response to: re: office 2000 (Keith Stanier: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 2:09 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] office 2000 (gordon: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 2:33 pm) re: office 2000 (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 2:45 pm) re: office 2000 (Keith Stanier: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 2:09 pm) re: office 2000 (gordon: Fri, Nov 6, 2009, 1:11 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum