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Originally Posted by G50

I got open office installed, and the Word program works.

I left the Word Perfect program installed on the computer.

The problem is, when someone emails a Word doc, and I click to open it, the computer for some reason automatically tries to open it with Word Perfect, which it can't do.

Is there a way I can "disable" WP, or otherwise make the computer use the Open Office/Word program to open Word docs?

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Open Office yet

As far as the computer trying to open up the word doc in word perfect, try this (you should only need to do this once, not every time you open an attachment)

-Save the attachment to your machine somewhere, and locate the file on your machine
-Right click on the file
-Scroll down to "open with"
-Depending on your version of word, you will now see either a "choose default program" option in the menu OR a list of programs and beneath that a check box saying "always use this program for this file type" or something like that. You need to select open office to open this type of program.

Or, you can just remove word perfect from your machine.

Hope this helps!