Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Double clicking doc won't open Word
Name: kmv1109 Date: August 1, 2006 at 17:10:39 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: Pentium Product: Dell
Comment:
When I double click a .doc in Windows Explorer, it doesn't do anything. It should open the document in Word. I can open Word and File and Open, but it's way more convenient to double click. Plus, with an attachment in an e-mail, I have to save it before I can access it. We're running Word 2002 on a Win XP Pro machine. Thanks.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: August 1, 2006 at 17:20:20 Pacific
Reply:
When you right-click the filename, what's the first option in the list?
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.
0
Response Number 2
Name: kmv1109 Date: August 2, 2006 at 08:44:42 Pacific
Reply:
'Open' is the first option in the list.
0
Response Number 3
Name: kmv1109 Date: August 2, 2006 at 08:48:30 Pacific
Reply:
Now this morning, Word will open if I double click the document, but it's empty. The document doesn't open, just Word. Yesterday it wasn't doing anything.
Summary: Well did step #4 Same thing, it launches but then when I try to use it, it goes gray and everything still disappears. And saved docs won't open at all, still just gray. (I changed last step back to ...
Summary: My bonehead brother saved a MS Works Word Processor file with a .doc.wps extension to a floppy disk. When he saved it he may have saved as Word 97 (doc) type so he could work on it at school. Anyway, ...
Summary: My MS Works word processor won't open all of a sudden. The message says that it cannot locate a file needed to open the program. So it seems it became corrupted. I'm pretty sure that MS Works came ...
0 
Outlook Formatting - Bull...
