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Thread ID: 36270	2003-08-04 11:08:00	Deleting wordpad	amazon (3976)	Press F1

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165351	2003-08-04 23:04:00	Ah Amazon, if only you would pause to contemplate the advice you have been given. The "can't find Wordpad.exe" was exactly what you were expected to get once the file was renamed. This stopped Wordpad from interfering with your attempts to open the document, and that would let you concentrate on getting the problem solved. At that point if you followed the advice given to you previously you would have done the "open with" procedure and selected Word. Your file should then have opened in Word, and if you checked the "always use this program" (or whatever the exact words are) this result would have been set in place for all future attempts to open any Word docs. I suggest you rename it again and carry on sorting your original problem. I don't think normal.dot will help as it is a document format, but you never know, I haven't needed to look that deeply into it. If you haven't fixed your problem by the time you read this, I recommend that you copy and paste the advice given into a single file (use notepad to save further confusion) and print it out. Highlight the steps recommended then go through them methodically. Diagnosis is a process and there isn't always a magic bullet. More often than not you have to follow a methodical path eliminating options until you strike gold. If all current suggestions fail, then we know you have a problem! Cheers Billy 8-{) PS I don't recall if you answered this when a previous poster suggested it, and I haven't time to go back and check right now, but what happens if you open Word first then try to open the document from within Word itself?	Billy T (70)
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