MS Word Help?

BBC South Today · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 14.31

Hi there, was wondering if anyone could help me out with a little problem I am having. I try to open a word document from my documents but nothing happens - I go to open with but I cannot find MS Word anywhere on my program files in the list it gives. But I have the program on my computer. Can anyone please help me?

Alexia · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 14.40

Have you tried opening Word, and then using the Open dialogue in the File menu? i.e. doing it t'other way round?

BBC South Today · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 15.30

Ye that works fine...but I would prefer to do it the way I am used too. Anyone any ideas?

Jovis · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 15.31

Have you checked the file type associations? Which OS are you on?

Jovis · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 15.50

cdd, I demand you put that post back.

BBC South Today · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 16.08

where do I type that into? also am on vista with this new laptop.

Nini · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 16.24

Two solutions: You could either do a repair for the Office install, should get your file associations back or alternatively shift-right click on the file, use Open With.. and associate the file extension to open with Word by hand.

lukey · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 16.33

No idea if this is related, but I've noticed on my Vista laptop, if it's been on for several days randomly it'll lose its Office file associations, and Office itself behaves rather odd. A reboot sorts it out. No idea if it's actually related to uptime, or just a case of 'on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero'.

BBC South Today · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 16.37

Nini wrote:Two solutions: You could either do a repair for the Office install, should get your file associations back or alternatively shift-right click on the file, use Open With.. and associate the file extension to open with Word by hand.

I go to open with - but i cannot find word. As for office instal - do you mean uninstall it and install agen?

Nini · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 17.32

lukey wrote:No idea if this is related, but I've noticed on my Vista laptop, if it's been on for several days randomly it'll lose its Office file associations, and Office itself behaves rather odd. A reboot sorts it out. No idea if it's actually related to uptime, or just a case of 'on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero'.

I'd blame this one on uptime issues, only non-server based version of Windows that could maintain days or weeks of uptime without somehow screwing itself up was Windows 2000. No film quotes to be had here.

Related? Who can say, nobody's bothering to actually mention what version of Office they're running.

BBC South Today wrote:I go to open with - but i cannot find word. As for office instal - do you mean uninstall it and install agen?

:squints exasperatedly: OK... just uninstall and reinstall, it'll sort it out with little fiddling about. Very unnecessary but it's as quick a fix I can be giving.

BBC South Today · Sun 27 Apr, 2008 18.37

Got a feeling I dont know where disks are - so can you suggest anything else please?