This could be tacked onto my Word thread, but I want to focus on this one very specific weirdness.
Does reloading software really clean out the old settings?
Finally I'd had enough. Of the many grumbles with Word, this one I couldn't work-around. It was one that showed up on my PC, but was fine on my laptop.
They both have the same download copy of Office.
PROBLEM:
I choose a file from Word Perfect and Save As .doc MS Word .6/.7 Fine, been doing it for years. Everyone can read it and it will fire up in Word 10 - finally with the offer of updating to that Version. Fine for months.
One day, instead of Word 2010 running the doc file, a menu pops up in the centre of the screen offering various file types.
Convert file from:
Plain
Encoded
Rich
HTML
.......etc.,
Wordperfect 5
Wordperfect 6
NOWHARE IS A B
DIN .doc file offered.
I take the same file and it opens on the laptop in W7 Word 2010 and Vista Word 2007 straight away.
If I convert it to a doc or docx then and there and bring it back to the PC, it runs just fine.
I then put the two exact same Word copies side by side on big screens and go through every option I can find. Same.
Finally, in hair tearing despair, I remove Office from my offending PC and reload it. Having looked for detritus like Office folders. There were none.
It made not the slightest bit of difference.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My PC will not do what it did a week ago and run those files.