All word documents open up in WordPad instead of Microsoft Word

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All of my Word documents show up and open up in WordPad
instead of Word even though they have the .doc extension.
Unless I go into Word and do a file-open on these files,
the files only open up in WordPad (severely messing up
formatting).

Is there a default I need to change somewhere so Word
documents show up with the Microsoft Word icon and so .doc
files open up in Microsoft Word instead of WordPad?

Thanks in advance.
 
-----Original Message-----
All of my Word documents show up and open up in WordPad
instead of Word even though they have the .doc extension.
Unless I go into Word and do a file-open on these files,
the files only open up in WordPad (severely messing up
formatting).

Is there a default I need to change somewhere so Word
documents show up with the Microsoft Word icon and so .doc
files open up in Microsoft Word instead of WordPad?

Thanks in advance.
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Right click on any document with the .doc extension, then
choose Properties. On the General tab, by Opens with:,
choose Change, then choose Word and save your changes.
 
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