Word Documents No Longer Opening From Shortcuts

[chuckbear]

My Office 2007 has been working fine until I tried to open and documents today. If I click on a document shortcut I get an error message, "There was a problem sending the command to the program" and the document won't open. If I open a blank Word page and use the menu to Open, I can locate the file and it opens just fine. I have many Word docs so I really need some help on this one. I have search the net and found some suggestions on changing the Word data registry file, but that did not work. Excel and other Office files open fine. Chuck

 

[strollin]

Try this: There was a problem sending command to the program - Microsoft Community

 

[chuckbear]

Sorry, nothing there helped including deleting the ddeexec registry entries. Chuck

 

[chuckbear]

One other point, I have run the repair option 3 times now with no help. Chuck

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I've seen that message before I would usually clear which ever list the doc was on and repopulate it.
Assuming your referring to the start menu list of items.

 

[chuckbear]

No, I'm talking about not being able to open any word document from any folder on my computer and getting the error message. Chuck

 

[Ranger4]

Try this. Open Control Panel, select Default Programs, when that opens click on Set Your Default Programs, then click on Word from the list, then down the bottom of the screen you should see Choose Defaults for this Program, double click on that & tick all the items in the list of what will open Word, then click on Save down the bottom.

 

[chuckbear]

I've already done all of that, everything possible for file associations. No help. Chuck.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi are the files on the C drive ?
You mention "shortcuts" to the files in your question is why I assumed a recent list was being used elsewhere
But you also state the recent list word uses work without issue.

 

[chuckbear]

They are all on this computer and they are the Word icons for all of my saved word documents. Chuck

 

[ThrashZone]

Try clean boot,
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

 

[chuckbear]

Didn't help. The only issue is Word. All other Office products work fine. Chuck

 

[Ranger4]

What happens when you right click on one of the Word short cuts & select file location. What does it do.

It seems that your short cuts have lost their link to Word itself. Have you tried resetting them from the actual document itself. To do that right click on the Word short cut icon & select Properties & on the General Tab see if it shows Opens with Word.

 

[chuckbear]

Yes, it shows open with microsoft word and in the properties it shows the correct file location. There is no option to select file location when I right click on the icon. It shows up in the properties. Chuck