How do I stop Word docs from opening in Wordpad?

[Chuck Davis]

Open Windows Explorer, navigate to a Word file and right click on the file
name, choose Open with from the menu that opens and choose Microsoft Office
Word

 

[rob]

Thanks for the help, this is the reaction I'm looking for whenever I open any
Word file. How can I change my settings/preferences so that Word is the
default program instead of Wordpad?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Reregister Word.

Start > Run winword.exe /r

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Although reregistering Word (as Charles suggests) is the easy way to
accomplish it. Instead of selecting Microsoft Word from the Open With list,
choose Select Application, then select Word and check the box for "Always
use this application to open this file type."