I can no longer open document directly in Windows 10

Stefan Blom · #9 08-09-2018, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Wordsmasher

I appreciate your help, but what your suggesting was something I did right off the bat when I discovered the problem. I have set Word as default. Ironically, Open Office and Libre, two programs I tried out, can be opened directly, but a word document can't. What I get is a blank word screen as I showed you. Since Open Office and Libre aren't the defaults I find your remedy dubious. Evidently, you don't need to have a document be the word processor to directly into it.

---- Wordsmasher

When double-clicking doesn't open a file, the issue is with file associations in Windows. In this case, it is possible that having both OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) and Microsoft Office on the same machine is causing trouble, because they may "compete" over file associations. I suggest that you uninstall word processors that you don't need; then it should be easier to set the default that you want.

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