I've just installed Windows 7, and right afterwards Office 2003. I've noticed, that while .rtf documents had the normal Word icons, the .doc documents were still associated with Wordpad. Manually, using the "Open with" menu I've re-associated .doc files by default with Word. When I double click on them Word opens them, however the icons of the .doc files are different from those of the .rtf files. (Now their appearance refer to Word, but they are not the "original" Word icons. It looks like as if I associated an alien extension with Word, for example .jpg or .pdf. It seems as if Word wouldn't really like to recognize .doc files as its own.)
Moreover, when on the desktop I do a right-click and select "New" I can create every file types of the installed Office applications (.xml, .ppt, .mdb) except a .doc file, there is no possibility to create any Word documents that way at all.
So according to the mentioned problems I think Word has some problems with managing its own file extension. I repaired and also re-installed Office, but that didn't help.
Until now I used the RC version of Windows 7 but I didn't have this problem.
If you could help me solving this issue I'd be very grateful!
Moreover, when on the desktop I do a right-click and select "New" I can create every file types of the installed Office applications (.xml, .ppt, .mdb) except a .doc file, there is no possibility to create any Word documents that way at all.
So according to the mentioned problems I think Word has some problems with managing its own file extension. I repaired and also re-installed Office, but that didn't help.
Until now I used the RC version of Windows 7 but I didn't have this problem.
If you could help me solving this issue I'd be very grateful!
My Computer
- OS
- Windows 7
