my computer is saving all word documents to word pad

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wordwriter

I had a problem with my hard drive. It was repaored but now all word
documents are saved as a word pad document. I direct the document to be saved
as a word document, but it gets converted. How do I stop this?
 
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David Boswell

your response addressed existing documents - our problem is creating wordpad
document when using WORD and choosing "WORD document" as file type. Also the
fix referred to "winword /r" - I got a "not found"
 
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Anne Troy

I cannot determine from what you've said whether you're trying to use Word
or WordPad to create Word documents. It also sounds to me like they didn't
reinstall Word when your hard drive was repaired--if you ever had Word at
all.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com
 
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David Boswell

repeating from posts:

from "wordwriter":
I had a problem with my hard drive. It was repaored but now all word
documents are saved as a word pad document. I direct the document to be
saved as a word document, but it gets converted. How do I stop this?

from David Boswell:
your (Barnhill) response addressed existing documents - our problem is
creating wordpad document when using WORD and choosing "WORD document" as
file type.
Also the fix referred to "winword /r" - I got a "not found"

we are using Microsoft WORD to create a Microsoft WORD document!! But the
document is being created as a wordpad document - I have reinstalled WORD
twice!! We definetly are using WORD - please re-read the original posts if
this is not clear.
 
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Anne Troy

Dave...check YOUR post. You said: "our problem is creating wordpad
document", so that's where I got confused. Anyway... you can double-check if
Word actually resides on your PC by looking for winword.exe, which is Word's
executable file. However, if you got "not found" on winword /r, then I don't
hold much hope for it. Do you have your installation CDs? I'd be looking for
those. :)
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com
 
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Charles Kenyon

If you tried to Run winword.exe/r and got a not found, Windows is not
finding Word. The ".doc" extension is registered in your Windows to WordPad.

How are you getting Word open? When it is open, does the W icon show up at
the top left of your window when you believe you have Word open? Or is it a
tablet icon?

Please don't be so cross with the people trying to help you or you'll just
be tuned out. Everyone answering questions here is a fellow user, not an
Microsoft employee. We are all volunteers and can just go home for the
weekend rather than help you. I understand that you are frustrated. Windows
is complicated; so is Word. It isn't our fault. We live with it too.

--
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


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David Boswell

thanks for all the suggestions - sorry if I sounded harsh - i had just
discovered that after 5 years of telephone support that Dell now charges $99
a phone call.

i found the fix - actually turned out quite simple - i kept thinking it was
in the WORD tools -- this was on "file types":

From Word Help (modified):
 
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