Unable to Open MS Office File

While working on MS Office, there may be situations when you click and try to
open up an office file,
it does not open. After this you try the “Open With” option to open the required
file and the file gets
opened in other program rather than its respective program. For instance, an MS
Word file might
not open in MS Word and works effectively with any other program.


This situation generally occurs when the file association or file type extension
is incorrect.
To correct the problem, one must ensure to check and correct the file
associations by “repairing the Office or Office program”, or by using the
“regserver” command.


Option 1:
Repair the Office or Office Program:

While repairing the Office program, the correct file association will be
performed with the respective
office program, to repair the Office program follow these steps:

1.First of all, close all the running Office programs and turn off any running
anti-virus program.

2.Click the Start button and select the Run option.

3.In the Run window, type the following command: appwiz.cpl. This would open the
Add or Remove Programs window.

4.Click the installed office program like, Microsoft Office Professional Edition
2003 or Microsoft Office 2000 Professional etc.

5.Now click the Change/Remove option. The Microsoft Office 2003 Setup window
will be displayed.

6.In the Setup window, select the Reinstall or Repair option. The program will
now check for the installed files
and will replace or install any files from the earlier version of Office which
were of wrong size, damaged,
corrupt or missing.

7.After repairing of the Office program, turn on the anti-virus program on your
computer system.

The repairing of Office would make the program free from errors or any type of
corruptions thus making
the files accessible.

Option 2:
Use of “regserver” command to re-register the Office program

The regserver command is used re-register the Office program itself. This
command is useful when you want to
rewrite all the program registry keys and re-associate the programs with
suitable program files.
To perform this modification, follow these steps:

1.Close the program which has to be re-registered
2.Click the Start button and select the Run option.
3.In the Run window, type program.exe/unregserver in the box.
4.Again click Start and select the Run option and type program.exe/regserver in
the box.

Note: This does not works for MS Outlook

These steps would re-register the Office program and the office files would open
with their respective programs.

This article aims to provide you with solutions when you are unable to open a
file or access its data
because of unknown reasons. If in certain circumstances your MS Office file(s)
gets corrupt or damaged
you can recover your inaccessible data with the help of file repair software.
The file repair software repairs
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