Make office the default opening program

[steveh]

Morning all

I have come back from holiday and all of my .doc, .xls, .ppt files are showing as plain icons, when I click them I get the file association dialog and for Word and PowerPoint I can select the right icon and they open but it doesn't make it the default, as for the .xls I don't even get an Excel option.

Is there anyway that I can go into some setting and say that all Office documents should be opened by MS Office?

I have tried to Google but most of them are from disgruntled people who receive later versions and they want to view them in 2003 which doesn't apply in this case

[HansV]

Which version of Office are you using, and which version of Windows?

[steveh]

Hi Hans

thank you for the quick response, I use Office 2003 and was just about to post that I had sorted it, I had forgotten about the detect and repair which has done the trick

[HansV]

OK, great!