Word files opening in Word or Word Pad, what's up?

[FHayek]

All,

I use Parallels 8 to run Windows 7 -32 bit and MS Office 2012.

When I open a Word Doc that was saved with the .doc extension, the file opens in MS Word. When I open a MS Word Doc that has the .docx extension, the doc opens in Word Pad.

When viewing these files in a folder, all of them have the little icon for Word with the Parallel Redlines denoting my use of Parallels 8.

Do I need to associate these files with the doc extension so the open in Word vs. Word Pad?

Any help would be great.

FH

 

[TheMTtakeover]

If you right click on the file there should be an option to select a default program or you can right click and choose open with. I would say more but I only have a Mac accessible to me. Hope this helps

 

[FHayek]

If you right click on the file there should be an option to select a default program or you can right click and choose open with. I would say more but I only have a Mac accessible to me. Hope this helps

Thanks for the reply. I was able to associate all the .docx with MS Word.

FH