All Word Documents Changed to "Office Open XLM Document" and De-Formatted after Windows 7 Update

Today's Windows updated changed all my Word documents to "Office Open XLM" documents so that they only open in WordPad...this results in removal of most of the formatting and any graphics or pictures in the Word documents are gone....This is 20 years of work!

I tried changing the association of the files with WordPad to Word....Couldn't make it happen though I was at the correct place to do that.

I tried changing the file type of individual documents -- Word is not available.

I tried creating a new document in Word (The program is still on my computer), but the only possibilities are for saving in Open XML, text and rich text, none of which have real formatting available.

Everything was working fine until the minute the Updates were installed.

Help!!!!
You can try reregistering Word. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm. For more information see this post.
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Last updated December 15, 2024 Views 1,539 Applies to: