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    Hello,

    I have recently bought MSOffice 2010 Professional, after installing i noticed none of the office programs appear on the default program list,

     

    i am able to open office files by file->open method, however if i right click a file and choose open with, none of the office programs appears on that list either,

     

    please help

     

    amit

    Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:42 PM

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    Hi,

     

    If you are running Windows XP, try either of the following method to set the default program as Office 2010:

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    Method 1:

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    Right click on a file that you want to open. Select 'Open With...', then 'Choose Program...'.

     

    From the dialog box that pops up select the program you want to make the default application. You should be able to find it, but if you can't you can press 'Browse' and search for the program's main executable file.

     

    Select "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file", and press OK. Now this program is the default. You can repeat this process for various file types (e.g. doc, xls etc.).

     

    Method 2:

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    The other option is to open Windows Explorer and then select:
    Tools->Folder Options...->File Types

    From here you can find a particular file type such as 'doc', and press 'Change' and you will be presented with the same dialog as in Method 1. You can use this list to quickly set the default application for all the relevant file types.

     

    If you are using Windows Vista/Windows 7, you can also try this:

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    1.       Click Start.

    2.       Type "default programs" in the Search box.

    3.       Click Default Programs under Programs in the search results.

    4.       Now click Set your default programs.

    5.       Highlight Microsoft Outlook on the left.

    6.       Click Set this program as default.

    7.       Click OK.

     

    Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for you, please feel free to let me know.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Sally Tang

    • Marked as answer by Sally Tang Monday, June 21, 2010 4:04 AM
    Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:36 AM

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    Hi,

     

    If you are running Windows XP, try either of the following method to set the default program as Office 2010:

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    Method 1:

    ------------------

    Right click on a file that you want to open. Select 'Open With...', then 'Choose Program...'.

     

    From the dialog box that pops up select the program you want to make the default application. You should be able to find it, but if you can't you can press 'Browse' and search for the program's main executable file.

     

    Select "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file", and press OK. Now this program is the default. You can repeat this process for various file types (e.g. doc, xls etc.).

     

    Method 2:

    ------------------

    The other option is to open Windows Explorer and then select:
    Tools->Folder Options...->File Types

    From here you can find a particular file type such as 'doc', and press 'Change' and you will be presented with the same dialog as in Method 1. You can use this list to quickly set the default application for all the relevant file types.

     

    If you are using Windows Vista/Windows 7, you can also try this:

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    1.       Click Start.

    2.       Type "default programs" in the Search box.

    3.       Click Default Programs under Programs in the search results.

    4.       Now click Set your default programs.

    5.       Highlight Microsoft Outlook on the left.

    6.       Click Set this program as default.

    7.       Click OK.

     

    Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for you, please feel free to let me know.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Sally Tang

    • Marked as answer by Sally Tang Monday, June 21, 2010 4:04 AM
    Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:36 AM
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    Hi Sally

    Seems pretty pointless to keep on telling people to select MS Outlook from the default programs list because ITS NOT THERE.

    I run Outlook 2003 and W7 and same errors with default email. Box is ticked in Outlook as default program.

    Also I tried to enter it into seach box on start menu and the whole thing crashed and shutdown

    Regards

     

     

     

     

     

    Friday, June 25, 2010 11:17 PM
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    Hi Sally

    Seems pretty pointless to keep on telling people to select MS Outlook from the default programs list because ITS NOT THERE.

    I run Outlook 2003 and W7 and same errors with default email. Box is ticked in Outlook as default program.

    Also I tried to enter it into seach box on start menu and the whole thing crashed and shutdown

    Regards

     My same problem. It does not list outloook 2010 as an option.

     

     

     

     


    Monday, June 28, 2010 8:54 PM
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    Hi Sally

    Seems pretty pointless to keep on telling people to select MS Outlook from the default programs list because ITS NOT THERE.

    I run Outlook 2003 and W7 and same errors with default email. Box is ticked in Outlook as default program.

    Also I tried to enter it into seach box on start menu and the whole thing crashed and shutdown

    Regards

     My same problem. It does not list outloook 2010 as an option.

     

     

     

     



    I also am experiencing this problem office 2010 and Windows 7. I've tried all the standard ways and also notice that in Outlook 2010 the associate file types to default stays empty!

    help this is stopping me from synchronising!

    thanks

    Mattqt

    Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:58 AM
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    Dear Sally, I have the same problem: Office does not appear in the Default Programs list, so I can't choose it. I have Windows 7 Ultimate and Office Home and Business 2010 which I used to activate my previous trial version of Office 2010. This is annoying because links to send e-mails will not work. Kine regards, PiKOHLER
    Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:21 AM
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    ok, I found how to do it: you have to uninstall the trial version and install the purchased version instead. Activation with the key of the purchased version will not do the job ... PK
    Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:38 AM
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    Dear Sally

    Another person with the same problem. I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 and a trial version of Office 2007 installed. I found Office 2007 seriously irritating compared to Office 2003, so I subsequently downloaded a trial version of Office 2010, which I found marginally better. I decided to buy a copy of Office Home and Student 2010. As my laptop doesn't have a CD drive, I downloaded and installed Office 2010 from the web. I assumed that it would remove or overwrite the trial version, so I didn't uninstall that. Office 2010 works and I can open any files created in previous versions from within the appropriate Office program (Word, Excel, etc), but the programs do NOT appear in the default programs list, so you can't associate the program with a file extension. They also don't appear in the list of available programs if you right-click on a file and select "Open with..."

    Please help

    REgards

    Helen

    Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:29 AM
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    I'm having the same problem that Helen is having. I'm running Windows 7 and purchased Office 2010. Originally I was running the Click to RUn version, but that wouldn't sync with my iPhone so I downloaded the 32-bit version and installed it which now allows me to sync with iPhone, Google Calendar etc. But I still can't set Office 2010 as the default for other versions of Office, nor does Office 2010 appear as a default option. Seems like I'm not alone.

     

    Jeff

    Friday, September 10, 2010 12:09 PM
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    Same problem here. bought a brand new laptop with Windows 7 and purchased Office 2010 and downloaded it. none of my programs appear on the Default program list...I uninstalled the trial version of Office that came with the computer but still no luck...PLEASE HELP! I can´t syn my blackberry... 
    Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:58 AM
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    It's Nov. 11th, and I'm having the same exact problem.  It is apparently a common one. Has no one, including Microsoft, identified a solution for this?  No more word from Sally Tang (the Microsoft Moderator) on this?

    Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:17 AM
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    I agree with all. This is a problem. I bought an HP Mini with windows starter and office starter preinstalled. I upgraded to windows 7 home premium and office 2010 professional plus. I downloaded office since the mini doesn't have a cd drive. After that, I was only able to use the office 2010 pro plus by opening word for example, or access, or whatever, first and then creating a file. If I right clicked on "new" and "word doc," office starter would still open the file. If I opened an already created word doc, it opened with starter. So I went to the hassle of uninstalling starter and still no luck. Word docs on my desktop are now in black and white with "docx" at the bottom, no word logo, no white and blue, etc.  I have managed to get the files to "open with" word, but I can't simply right click on "new" and create a file. None of the office programs appear on the right click menu, or on the default program list. I have to go into the office folder in "all programs" and open the program I want to use first--word, access, powerpoint, whatever. Yes, I could put shortcuts on my desktop for each one but I shouldn't have to do that. I have spent hours messing with this thing. I bought office 2010. I want it to work right. I want my word docs on my desktop to be blue and white with the word logo. Help please?

    As the last poster said,

    "Has no one, including Microsoft, identified a solution for this? No more word (pun intended?) from Sally Tang (the Microsoft Moderator) on this?"

    Wednesday, November 17, 2010 4:16 AM
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    I have the same problem- using a trial version of 0ffice 2010

    Office does not appear on default list from start menu

    I had previously set Open Office as default- and can't unselect that- check marks are greyed out.

    Found this solution on another board- author said it works with Vista and Windows7 it worked for me (Vista). Office programs still do not appear on the default list selected from Start Menu- nonetheless, double clicking files opens them in Office after method 1 below.

    --navigate to a folder with the document. Right click on an existing document (word, excel, etc- repeat for each type)

    -- select "open with"

    --Click on "choose default"

    --select office program you want to use for opening that file type

    Second Method if this doesn't work ( I haven't tried this since method 1 worked)

    --Right click document

    --select properties

    --new window should open with file properties

    --click "change"

    new window should open with default choices.

    Tuesday, November 23, 2010 4:27 AM
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    Hello All,

     

    I had the same problem and was able to solve the problem by replacing Office 64 bit with 32 bit version. Than might be a solution for some of you.

     

    Cheers,

    Al

    Thursday, November 25, 2010 5:13 PM
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    Have the same problem on installing Student and Home 2010 on my Windows 7 notebook.
    Thursday, November 25, 2010 7:01 PM
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    Sally,

    None of the Office programs are listed in Default Programs (control panel/programs/default programs/set your default programs).  It's as though the control panel doesn't know i have MS office installed.

     

    But the programs run fine, I can click on a file and it understands which program to launch.

     

    But say I want to link my iphone calendar with my outlook calendar, i get a message saying there are "no supported mail application can be found" in iTunes - also, for contacts, Outlook is not an option in the pull down in iTunes.

     

    Do I need to reinstall?

     

     

    Monday, March 14, 2011 2:41 PM
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    It's still the same problem as of April 2011. I'm running Windows 7 on a Sony J series and "Office Starter 2010" has no programs that will appear in the Set Default Program window. Very irritating how many clicks it takes to open files through Start-All Programs-Office Starter- Excell -File-Folder - sub folde r -sub-folder - sub-folder - sub-folder -file. NOT encouraging me to purchase Office 2010 at all.

    Friday, April 15, 2011 6:35 PM
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    Sweet lord, I've been having this problem on two PC's running Windows 7 (64 bit) and Office 2010.  I just want to set Outlook as my default mail client, but it doesn't appear in the Default Programs list.
    Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:09 PM
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    Same problem

    Whether someone fix this?

    When I log in as administrator eveyrithing is OK.

    Right context menu is OK office is there / excel docs on desktop open default with excel / hyperlink in documents is fine not give error (This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer...)

    I do not know what the problem is

     

    Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:22 PM
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    Salmonguts,

    I read your post.  I had the same problem until tonight.  I don't know exactly how it worked, but it did. I'm using Windows 7 and Office 2010.  My issue was with Word not appearing as an option for default.  I started like all the other recommendations, but did something a bit different.

    1. I went to the "Default Programs" screen.
    2. I clicked "Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
    3. I scrolled to .doc and changed the Default from Microsoft Office Client Virtual Handler to Microsoft Open XML Converter.
    4. I opened a .doc file and it asked me to save a new file.  I saved the file with the same name. (I don't know if that mattered or not.)
    5. I then found myself in a loop.  It asked me to save a document each time I clicked on a .doc file.
    6. I changed the default program back to Microsoft Office Client Virtual Handler.
    7. When I did all my icons changed to Word 2010 icons and opened automatically when I clicked them.

    I hope this helps everyone out there who was really getting frustrated with this.

    Regards.

    JackpotCharlie

     

    • Proposed as answer by JackpotCharlie Thursday, July 21, 2011 5:25 AM
    Thursday, July 21, 2011 5:25 AM
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    I read your post. I had the same problem until tonight. I don't know exactly how it worked, but it did. I'm using Windows 7 and Office 2010. My issue was with Word not appearing as an option for default. I started like all the other recommendations, but did something a bit different.

    1. I went to the "Default Programs" screen.
    2. I clicked "Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
    3. I scrolled to .doc and changed the Default from Microsoft Office Client Virtual Handler to Microsoft Open XML Converter.
    4. I opened a .doc file and it asked me to save a new file. I saved the file with the same name. (I don't know if that mattered or not.)
    5. I then found myself in a loop. It asked me to save a document each time I clicked on a .doc file.
    6. I changed the default program back to Microsoft Office Client Virtual Handler.
    7. When I did all my icons changed to Word 2010 icons and opened automatically when I clicked them.

    I hope this helps everyone out there who was really getting frustrated with this.

    Regards.

    JackpotCharlie

    Thursday, July 21, 2011 5:25 AM
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    hi everyone

                         I had the same problem with my HP Laptop which came pre installed with Windows 7 and Office 2007. After tinkering around with the machine and trying default program (which didnt help at all), i tried the following steps and it worked for me.

    1. try opening any office file for e.g excel

    2. on being prompted to select between

    a)searching a program from the net

    and

    b) selecting a program from list of programs.

    3. choose b

     4. After choosing option b, you will obviously find that windows does not show the office 2007 as a choice of program. so select browse

    5. in the open with prompt which comes after selecting browse change the location to c drive

    6. in c drive you will see two folders

        c) program files

        d) program file (x86)

    7. Choose option d

    8. Inside this folder, search for microsoft office and open the folder

    9. on opening the microsoft office you will come across another folder called office12

    10. open this folder and scroll down to find .exe file which can open your file which in my case was excel, so i chose excel.exe

    11. voila microsoft excel can now be seen in the list of programs to open files. and excel files can opened simply by a double click

    I hope these eleven steps work for you as it did for me

     


    • Edited by lungktung Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:08 PM
    • Proposed as answer by scandalxk Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:35 AM
    Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:56 PM
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    Lungktung's answer worked perfectly for me.  Thanks, Lung.
    Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:35 AM
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    Worked perfectly for me too, Thanks!
    Friday, October 14, 2011 7:59 AM
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    You're a genius...so rarely do I find a good fix for stuff like this, even when dearest Sally seems to have fled the scene.
    Friday, October 21, 2011 8:58 AM
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    How does setting microsoft outlook when you need microsoft word?

    I have win 7 hm prem  64 bit

    • Edited by raysgirl Monday, January 9, 2012 9:20 PM
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    A great help lungktung!

    I tried your answer, and it worked for me except I had to use another folder called office14 instead of office12 on my Windows 7 and Office 2010 PC.

    Thank you so much!

    God blessing.

    Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:07 PM
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    Well, as far as I can see, no one has answered this one yet, (I’ll admit, I haven’t read all the responses!)

     

    Anyway, the only way I can see to fix this, is to right click on a file you wish to open, go to “open with”, then to “choose default program”, then click on “browse” near the bottom right, then manually choose the office2010 executable (found in the program files/office14 folder)

     

    You will have to do this once for all office type/associated files.

     

    Hope this helps!

     


    • Edited by -GonzO- Saturday, January 14, 2012 2:25 AM
    • Proposed as answer by -GonzO- Saturday, January 14, 2012 2:26 AM
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    One of if the only types of programs that display are Windows Contacts, Mail, Centre etc when what we all really want is the standard Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc to come up but it doesn't. So now what do we do to have those as the default programs?
    Wednesday, February 8, 2012 8:04 PM
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    Problem solved! It still won't automatically come up as one of the default programs but you can still search for it under the browse option, but make sure that the Program Files you are looking for are the (x86). Then you can search for the program in the search bar and it will come up (and not as a component).

    Hope this helps.

    Thursday, February 9, 2012 6:40 PM
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    hi everyone

                         I had the same problem with my HP Laptop which came pre installed with Windows 7 and Office 2007. After tinkering around with the machine and trying default program (which didnt help at all), i tried the following steps and it worked for me.

    1. try opening any office file for e.g excel

    2. on being prompted to select between

    a)searching a program from the net

    and

    b) selecting a program from list of programs.

    3. choose b

     4. After choosing option b, you will obviously find that windows does not show the office 2007 as a choice of program. so select browse

    5. in the open with prompt which comes after selecting browse change the location to c drive

    6. in c drive you will see two folders

        c) program files

        d) program file (x86)

    7. Choose option d

    8. Inside this folder, search for microsoft office and open the folder

    9. on opening the microsoft office you will come across another folder called office12

    10. open this folder and scroll down to find .exe file which can open your file which in my case was excel, so i chose excel.exe

    11. voila microsoft excel can now be seen in the list of programs to open files. and excel files can opened simply by a double click

    I hope these eleven steps work for you as it did for me

     


    This worked for me except for in 32b it's Office 14. Or at least it was for me.

    Thanks man!

    Sunday, July 22, 2012 6:59 PM
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    hi there

    please repair Office 2010 , it work automatically worked for me :)

    enjoy

    Thanks

    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:03 PM
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    This does NOT work.  A little help here?
    Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:13 AM
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    This works if Microsoft Outlook appears as an option to select as default but does not if it is not in the list.  On Windows 10, Microsoft Outlook could still run but disappeared from my both my apps and features menu and the list of programs you can set as default.  So any time I clicked a MailTo protocol it would get piped to Microsoft mail rather than outlook.

    This behavior started after I installed Microsoft Visio 2016 using a downloaded link and product key.

    To fix this I ran the quick repair on the Microsoft Office 365 app.  After that ran, Outlook reappeared as a choice in the app default program list and I was able to associate it with Mail (which also fixed the protocol) by using the method you mentioned above.

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    check out the response I wrote above.  Hopefully that works for you.
    Tuesday, June 13, 2017 5:20 PM
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    Lungktung,

    I was able to change the program that the file opened with but now it says that the file is not compatible with WIN32. This is very odd to me because I can open the file directly from the Excel2010 program without any error messages.

    Thanks for your help.

    Thursday, September 28, 2017 7:33 PM