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When I Download Documents They Are Opening In Wordpad, Not Word?

April 26, 2017documents download opening word wordpad

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When I Download Documents They Are Opening In Wordpad, Not Word?

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Over the past few days when I download documents sent to me, they have (mostly) been opening in wordpad. Even when I copy them and paste them in Word, they save with a “wordpad” icon not a Word icon (though have .doc as file extension). Also, it looks like most of my documents now all have the wordpad icon, not Word, next to them now (although I have never created a document in wordpad. Help!