Friday, April 4, 2014

OneNote installation messed up my MS Office file associations, here is how to restore Office file associations

I can not understand why installing a MS product ended messing up with my MS Office file associations but it did! If you are in the same situation this is what solved my problem: (from: eHow article)



Instructions

    • 1
      Click on the Start button and choose Run. Type the following in the run command box and press the Enter key: "winword /regserver". Doing so will start the Microsoft Word application and automatically re-associate all word processing file types with the Word program.
    • 2
      Click on the Start button and choose Run. Type the following in the run command box and press the Enter key: "excel /regserver". This will start the Microsoft Excel application and will associate all spreadsheet data file types with the Excel program.
    • 3
      Click on the Start button and choose Run. Type the following in the run command box and press the Enter key: "powerpnt /regserver". This will start the Microsoft Powerpoint application and will associate all Powerpoint presentation files with the Powerpoint program.
    • 4
      Click on the Start button and choose Run. Type the following in the run command box and press the Enter key: "msaccess /regserver". The Microsoft Access application will start and it will associate all appropriate database file types with the Access program.

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