As the subject indicates, when I click on a file that is on my desktop (and elsewhere) Word 2007 tries to open a file for each of the words of the path to that file. For example, if I click a file called Winter term Marks.doc it will try to open C:documents.doc ; c:/and.doc ; settings.doc ; etc. It gives an error message each time.
If I do not leave spaces between the words of the filename, it cuts down a bit on the files it tries to open as it takes the whole name as one word.
Also, if I open word and open the file through its menu, the proper file opens right away.
I have changed the DDE box in the associations to [open("%1")] but it still wont open the file properly
Can anyone help please?
Do you have the Use DDE option checked?
yes that is checked too, i have compared it to settings i have on another computer and the seem to be the same, but i still get this error?
What do you have in the 'Application used to perform this action' section? Is there a %1 on the end? If so, is it in quotes - "%1" - as it should be?
This is what is in the box
[open("%1")]
Not that box - the one at the top.
oh sorry i have
open
in the box
My bad - I meant the one below that. See picture.
yes same as your screen shot
What exactly is in the box I highlighted?
The same path as yours leading to winword.exe
This occurred because i had moved the folder for winword, i also had the same trouble with excel, but i sorted that out by setting it out with [open("%1")] etc.
I tried the same with word and it just wont work, it keeps wanting to split the file name.
my path has
/n "%1"
on the end of it (and is for Office 2010) which you can't see in the picture (which is why I asked you what exactly is in yours)
oh ok my path ends in the final folder and then /winword.exe
do i need to add something to the end?
Yep:
/n "%1"
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