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<\/a><\/p>\nMicrosoft Word isn’t your default program for viewing and editing documents. Do you want to select the file types that Word should open?<\/em><\/p>\n I didn’t see this message when I logged in locally to a Windows 10 computer. However, after I joined the computer to the domain, I saw this message on the new domain-joined profile. I went to Settings -> Apps -> Default apps -> Choose default apps by file types<\/strong>, but Word was associated with all the file types I want. If you see file types .DOCMHTML File and .DOS File in that section, just ignore them because they are not Word files.<\/p>\n I then went to the hyperlink Set defaults by app<\/strong>, as shown below. I wanted to make sure that the default for my apps were properly configured.<\/p>\n I looked for Word in the list and clicked Manage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I noticed that all file types were properly associated with Microsoft Word. I had manually associated the Rich Text Format (.rtf) with WordPad because I don’t want that associated with Word. I noticed that as soon as I associated .rtf with Word again and then restarted Word, the message disappeared. However, that’s not what I wanted. I want .rtf files to be associated with WordPad so whenever I double-click a file with .rtf extension it opens in WordPad, not in Word. I reverted my Rich File Format (.rtf) files back to WordPad.<\/p>\n I restarted Word and simply turned off the message by selecting the box Don’t show this message again<\/strong> and clicked Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n I didn’t do this in the first place because I wanted to make sure that the Word is properly configured as the default program for viewing and editing documents. Once I have confirmed that Word was properly configured and the file type associations were all correct, I decided to turn the message off because I knew it was safe to do so. Just so you know, this action is exactly the same as going to File -> Options -> General tab<\/strong> and then clearing the option under the Startup type options<\/strong> section for Tell me if Microsoft Word isn’t the default program for viewing and editing documents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
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