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#1 DAVID E

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Posted 09 February 2010 - 12:02 AM

I received as a gift a few years ago some Berndes cookware from my sis but have trouble with one of the pans burning so, I wrote Berndes about it and they sent me a warranty information sheet as an attachment(.doc file) I tried to open it but got the popup box. I never heard of a "Set Associations control panel. what are they talking about and can I do this?

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Posted 09 February 2010 - 12:44 AM

Not sure about windows. But in Linux (for info) it is under right click on file, Select Properties>Permissions>set default operation to open this type of file.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 12:47 AM

Save file to your computer first.
What do you usually open .doc files with?
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 12:57 AM

I've never had to open any .doc files as yet with Vista. I think this happened a few months back and I just forgot about trying to open that one.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 01:01 AM

If you don't have MS Office, get free Open Office: http://www.openoffice.org/
It'll open .doc files.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 01:46 AM

That was a pretty good size file(150mb) but it worked-thanks.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 01:56 AM

It's an excellent program :)
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 02:46 AM

...and free!
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 02:50 AM

It is :)
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