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Hi All,
A while ago something happened to my Win 10 machine, mysteriously around the same time as Z: drive appeared, an update? I lost the ability to click on Word files and have them open, it open word and then does no more you have to manually open them, annoying but, hey. I try to open an Excel sheet opens fine, Access fine just click on the Icon. So I start thinking and maybe it got assigned to something else it was assigned to Word Pad, but...HELP! 
So next step right click on the Icon see the open with Unknown Application, but it opens Word(?)
Change it to Office it wants to use Office365, I had a look at an Excel file and it still associated with Excel how has Word got mixed up?
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Right click a Word file, Open With, Always use this App (or however it reads) so that it re-writes the file association to the registry.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If that doesn't work, do it twice: first to set WordPad, then second back to Word.
Or better, install LibreOffice and be done with it... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That was the first thing I tried, It worked until reboot, when it got unstuck. Trying it again...
Well that is odd it is opening Word again but the Icon has changed from a piece of paper with the blue W top left to a huge W...
modified 17-Feb-17 10:10am.
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: it open word and then does no more
That sounds like a DDE problem.
There's an option in Excel which lets you ignore DDE requests from other programs. If you select it, you'll get exactly the behaviour you've described when you try to open an Excel file from Explorer.
I don't think there's a similar option for Word. It sounds more like the file association registry settings are corrupt. You might need to repair your Office installation.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well it appears to be Working now (just with odd Icons) I will try to reinstall if I can find 'blessed' DVD, so odd!
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In the registry, ignore the HKCR .doc, etc, entries, because they've been fixed, so they don't work, any more.
Use HKCR Word.Document:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.XX Where XX is the version of Word documents that are handled -- which might be the same as the version number in Word's directory name, but is probably lower. It should be the highest Word.Document.XX (12, maybe?*) listed.
Right-click on that, and export it as a .reg file, somewhere, just to be safe.
Then dig deeper:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.XX\shell\Open\command
Make sure that there's a (Default) REG_SZ value that reads:
"[the path to]\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1" /o "%u"
If that doesn't do it, I'd recommend upgrading to Office 2003.
[edit] I forgot to mention that if you need to revert, just double click the .reg file you exported earlier. [/edit]
* There are few things in this world as screwed up as MSO version numbering.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All communities are equal but some communities are more equal than others.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Let me guess...building global communities involves changing people's privacy settings and increasing targeted advertising.
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Sounds like someone who got rich WAY to early in life. No real world experience. College is utopia and so should be the rest of the world.
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So were Bill Gates/Steve Jobs/Larry Page/Sergey Brin ... and most of the younger generation of successful entrepreneurs (at least younger than I am)
He is in a position to do now what most people can only do later in life, Bill Gates started his foundation 17 years ago (45-ish y.o ? ).
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: He is in a position to do now what most only a very select few people can only do later in life
FTFY 
Unless most people have billions $ where you come from 
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Yeah but at least Gates etc took on simple tasks that would have a direct effect on saving lives (diseases, food), zuck is trying to build utopia - and while he says it's for everyone looking at it won't be free - really does nothing useful for the less fortunate - I'm sure they want to live in a beautiful connected world as they starve/get thrown into forced labor/child armies.
In short do the stuff that needs fixing first, then make smell nice.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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I think you may be missing the original poster's point. Bill Gates made bazillions of dollars, and gave away a lot. That is very different from stating that "my bazillion making company Facebook can make the world a better place".
For every mega-corporation there is clearly a conflict of interest where some decisions make more bazillions and other decisions do more good for the world. Even if an extremely conscientious leader always wants to do the right thing his shareholders may have strongly opposing interests.
As for Mark Zuckerberg, his track record so far does not make this latest selfless philanthropic statement convincing.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Good for Zuckerberg to at least write about this important topic, sadly, he doesn't go nearly far enough. Baby steps, I guess.
Marc
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tl;dr...summary?
I have this aversion to having any page originating from Facebook loaded in my browser...
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El Reg has a summary...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Results are binary. 1 or 0. 
for some reason these adds popped up for me. Not sure if it's just country specific adds or if I want to know what sort of footprints I've left on the internet.
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Baby steps from the sounds of it
This space for rent
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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a test for a digital pregnancy?
with so much stuff loaded on mobiles how to know which app is the father?
Sin tack ear lol
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No, it should be an integer:
0 - Nope
1 - Yeah, pregnant
2 - Pregnant with twins
3 - Pregnant with triplets
etc...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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-1 "Reserved for future use"
-2 "Reserved for future use"
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