Article ID: 145488
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95a
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q145488
SYMPTOMS
When you open an Office document by double-clicking the document icon, the
document is opened with a different file name than the original file name.
For example, a Word document is opened as Document1. (Word assigns a
sequential number to each successive document you double-click to open.)
This behavior does not occur when you start the program and then open the
document from inside the program.
This also happens in other Office program with the following results:
Program Document File name Changes to
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Microsoft Excel <File name>1, <File name>2, and so on
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation, Presentation 2, and so on
Microsoft Access N/A
Other Microsoft or non-Microsoft programs may exhibit similar behavior.
The major drawback to this behavior is that when Word (or another Office
program) opens the document, it is not opening the original document;
instead the program is opening a copy that is based on the document that
you double-clicked.
CAUSE
The default action for the file type is set to New instead of Open. (To
locate this option, in Windows Explorer, click Options on the View menu and
then click the File Types tab.) As a result, when you double-click the
file, the program opens a new document based on the file you double-
clicked. Word 6 opens two documents--a new document based on the file and
the document itself.
RESOLUTION
To correct the problem, use the following steps to reset the default action
to Open instead of New:
- In Windows Explorer, click Options on the View menu, and then click
the File Types tab.
- From the list of Registerd File Types, select Microsoft Word Document
(or the Office program that exhibits this problem), and then
click the Edit button.
- In the Actions list, select Open and then click the Set Default
button.
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