FR,
You can try what Justin suggest and do a repair on Office, however I've read
some have had success with this and some not. You might also try clicking
"Start_Default Programs_Associate a file type or protocol with a program"
and see if that will work.
--
All the best,
SG
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"FR" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> SG
>
> My VBA code is in an Excel .xlsm file trying to open an empty Word file as
> a
> template. But as I said at the start of this thread I can't open any .docx
> file even by clicking on it in any folder, from desktop to hard disk root
> folder. I can work around it by using .doc in the code and using Open
> With...
> manually, but it seems to me it is a serious problem.
>
> Grateful for any help, FR
>
>
> "SG" wrote:
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>> FR,
>>
>> What VBA program are you using?
>> Is this something you created?
>>
>> --
>> All the best,
>> SG
>>
>> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
>> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
>> Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
>> http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
>> Just type in Microsoft
>>
>> "FR" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > Further to this problem: it only happens with .docx files, not with
>> > .doc
>> > files. I think it is a serious problem. How can I get Microsoft to look
>> > into
>> > it?
>> >
>> > "FR" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thanks for the response. I tried your suggestion and it had no problem
>> >> finding the file even without "search all locations". Furthermore I
>> >> moved
>> >> the
>> >> file all over the place to other folders, including the root folder on
>> >> the
>> >> system hard disk, and came up with the same results. Unfortunately I
>> >> need
>> >> to
>> >> open it from a VBA program.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Daniel" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > This is a major problem to me that vista cannot find files that are
>> >> > there
>> >> > I believe it is surching only indexed files and you doc is not in
>> >> > the
>> >> > index
>> >> > try clicking the serch all locations and subdirectories.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Daniel
>> >> > Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>> >> >
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