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Recently, I have experienced something very strange when I use my word program. If I open an existing document, Word changes the name of the document to Document1 upon opening the document.
Has anyone else ever experienced this? If so, how did you resolve the problem?
by jwpluto
You're describing a symptom that has a known fix if you're opening your document by double-clicking the document icon to open it.
It's possible that your icon default action setting is set to "New" instead of "Open". You can check this by opening the view menu in Explorer(not IE), then choose Options, then choose File types. Look down the list of registered file types and highlight "Microsoft Word Document". Now click the edit button. In the Actions list, identify the action in bold type. That is the action that occurs when you double-click a word document icon. If New is bold, that's why your problem occurs. To fix it, select Open and then click the Set Default button.
by vpierce
You are exactly right.
Works like a charm.
Thanks
by vpierce
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