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by mich_1

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If I try to open files in My Documents folder or within My Computer nothing happens. I can only access files by first opening Word or excel and opening files from there.

Any ideas

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by rindi1

right click the documents you want to open and then click on "open with". Now select the program you want to use for that file-type and also mark the check-box "always use the selected program to open this kind of file". After that you should be ok.

by johxj

What is the file set to open as? Does it have the icon for MS-word? If not, for some reason your files do not know which app to open them with and you need to define that. Maybe you could also try copying the text in the file and make a new one in a diffrent directory. Maybe those files became corrupt for some reason.

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