How do I restore Word as my file editor? Office 365 killed it.

I get the 1st screen BUT NOT THE SECOND. Sorry if that was not clear in my post above. Attached is an example.

Hello

I had exactly the same problem and only came across this forum today. I managed to fix mine so I thought I should post to see if it solves anyone elses problem.

I have Windows 7 and the option to 'Open With' does not appear. I had to:

1) Click Open
2) Select program from list
3) Searched my C drive for 'Word', found it: C drive> Program Files(x86)> Common files> microsoft shared> Virtualisation Handler>
...and the file name was CVH
4) I then went back to the program list and browsed through the folders to find CVH.

And hey presto it worked! I hope this helps someone else. :)

This is an old post, but it's important to know a valid, working solution (because I scoured the Internet and few people actually had a working solution). This issue annoyed the heck out of me too. I found something that actually works and I feel the world must know. There has to be something decent and good left in this world.


Symptoms:

• 365 broke my 2010 as the original poster noted. No surprises there.
• Anyways, double-clicking any *.doc, *.docx and *.docm files launches Word 365/2013 (ugly, annoying color scheme).
• If you launch Office 2010 products directly and then open existing files it'll open those files in Office 2010.
• If you look at any sort of "default" Control Panel screen, Word/Excel 2010 is nowhere to be found.
• If you attempt to right-click and Open With and attempt to browse into the proper "Office14" path to open the proper 2010 Word or Excel EXE files, it doesn't fix the Office 365 file association.

I tried various things people suggested such as messing with the registry, Default Programs in Control Panel, even the tip immediately above my post etc.. No go.


The solution that worked for me (Windows 7, 64-bit):

1. Go into Control Panel > Programs and Features.
2. Right-click Office 2010 and select Change.
3. Select Repair. Allow repair to finish.

The icons for my *.doc, *.docx and *.docm files all now show the familiar 2010 version. When double-clicking those files, Word 2010 now launches.

>>>>The solution that worked for me (Windows 7, 64-bit):

1. Go into Control Panel > Programs and Features.
2. Right-click Office 2010 and select Change.
3. Select Repair. Allow repair to finish. <<<<


Wang Sage:

Thank you so much for posting this solution. I had a similar problem with Office 2013 that I believe was caused by Open Office rather than 365.

After uninstalling Open Office. .docx files opened with Wordpad by default. No amount of reassigning the file extension to winword.exe changed that, nor did running the winword /r fix, even from within the directory.

Running the repair as you described from Control Panel did the trick.