When I try to open a 2007 word document on my desktop, it opens as notepad 
and is unreadable.  I have to go to "open with" and choose word.  I would 
like to be able to just click on the document and have it open in word.  

It also happens quite often with Word attachments in Outlook.

Try this: Click Start | Run. Type

winword /r

and press Enter to re-register file associations in Word.

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Ed12" <Ed12@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> When I try to open a 2007 word document on my desktop, it opens as notepad
> and is unreadable.  I have to go to "open with" and choose word.  I would
> like to be able to just click on the document and have it open in word.
>
> It also happens quite often with Word attachments in Outlook.