Uninstalling Word Viewer 97 does not restore WordPad associations (165910)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002
- Microsoft Word 2000
- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q165910 SYMPTOMS If you install Microsoft Word Viewer 97 and then remove it,
after you remove it, files that end in .doc will not be re-associated with
Microsoft Windows WordPad. CAUSE When you remove Word Viewer, the registry key that
associates .doc files with a program is removed isntead of re-associated with
Windows WordPad. RESOLUTIONThis problem is fixed in the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003. For additional information on how to obtain the latest version of the Microsoft Word Viewer, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 891090How to obtain the latest Microsoft Word Viewer WORKAROUND To work around this problem, follow these steps:
- Start WordPad.
This will re-create the registry
entry and re-associate .doc files with WordPad. - Double-click a file that has a .doc extension.
The Open With dialog box will be displayed. - Click WordPad as the application to open .doc files and
enable the "Always use this program to open this type of file" check
box.
The correct registry entry will be written and WordPad will be
used to open all files with the .doc extension. STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003.MORE INFORMATIONYou can use the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer to view
documents created in Microsoft Word 97, in Microsoft Word 2000, in Microsoft
Word 2002 and in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 12/17/2004 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb kbsetup KB165910 |
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