I had a similar problem except mine was with Power Point 2013. A work computer had Office 2007 installed on it and needed to keep Outlook 2007 on the computer, so I did not uninstall Word, Excel or Power Point 2007. I then installed Office 2013 thinking it would default to the newest version. However this was not the case and no matter how many times I choose to open with Power Point 2013 and set it to the default open program, it would always open in 2007. The trick was as techturtle described above except there was no POWERPNT. EXE key in the registry. I had to go to: HKEY_ CLASSES_ ROOT\ Applications\ then: right click on the Applications folder and choose new and then choose key and type POWERPNT. EXE do this again, new key shell new key command new key open so I created my own registry key for POWERPNT. EXE that looked like this HKEY_ CLASSES_ ROOT\ Applications\ POWERPNT. EXE\shell\open\command\( Default) Once that was done I placed the location of the Power Point 2013 executable in the ( Default) key. Which for me was: C:\ Program Files\ Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\ POWERPNT. EXE %1 * Update November 2014 * I found recently that Windows did an update in early November 2014 that reverted everything back to Office 2007 as the default program again. This time I had to create the registry values for Power Point, Excel and Word as mentioned above. Once they were created, documents would still default to Office 2007. The final trick was to right click -> open with -> choose default program -> choose Office 2013 program. After creating the registry values you will find this option available.
Clive has a system that just hasn't worked correctly since he installed and then removed Open Office. Now, when he double-clicks a Word document in Windows Explorer, the document doesn't open. Instead, what he gets is a blank document. He can still open the documents using File | Open (within Word but cannot double-click to open a document. The first thing to check is to make sure that the file extensions are correctly associated with Word. Since double-clicking on a Word document in Windows Explorer opens Word, the file types are probably associated correctly, but it doesn't hurt to go through the steps anyway. From the command line, use the following command: C:\ Program Files\ Microsoft Office\ Office\winword.exe /unregserver The quot;s are necessary, but you may need to change the path so it reflects the location of the winword.exe file on your system. ( You can use Windows' Search tool to locate the path to the winword.exe file.) The /unregserver switch unhooks all the references to Word in the Windows Registry. You should then, immediately, use the following command: C:\ Program Files\ Microsoft Office\ Office\winword.exe /regserver This command causes Word to rewrite all its Registry keys and to reassociate itself with document and template files. Now you can double-click a document file and see if Windows starts Word and opens the document. If this does not work, you'll need to try a few other things. First, start Word and let it try to detect and repair any problems with itself. Do this by choosing Detect and Repair from the Help menu. Word displays the Detect and Repair dialog box. ( See Figure 1.) Figure 1. The Detect and Repair dialog box. Accept the default settings (only Restore My Shortcuts While Repairing is selected then click OK. Word may ask you to insert the original installation CD- ROM, depending on what it detects and needs to repair. If that still.
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