My documents can only save in Workpad and not in Word what to do?

[wordproblemsjuly10th]

Word documents are not recognized so I need to left click to open as a Word
document since they come in as a Workpad document. When I try and save in
Word, the document will not save in Word but in Workpad.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm