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27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Changing the Association of Microsoft Office Document Types</title>
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32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3143267"><bookmark_value>Microsoft Office;reassigning document types</bookmark_value>
33<bookmark_value>file associations for Microsoft Office</bookmark_value>
34<bookmark_value>changing;file associations in Setup program</bookmark_value>
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38<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152780" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="1">To change the association of Microsoft Office file name extensions to open the files either in $[officename] or in Microsoft Office, using Microsoft Windows:</paragraph>
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42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314147" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In Windows Explorer, right-click a file of the type that you want to assign to another application.</paragraph>
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45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314268" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the context menu, choose "Open with..."</paragraph>
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48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314245" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the list of applications, select the program that should open the current type of files. Make sure that "Always use this program" is selected.</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314243" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">If these steps do not apply to your brand of Microsoft Windows, search your Microsoft Windows Help for instructions how to change the file associations.</paragraph>
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