When you first install Microsoft Word 2010, it automatically sets itself as the default program for handling Word documents. This means anytime you double-click a Word document from File Explorer ...

Learn how to use a Microsoft 365 setting to choose whether to open files in the online or desktop app, giving you full control for each file.

These are the default Microsoft Word settings that you must change to get more out of Word. Customize Word and improve the user experience!

You can reset Word settings, such as the Word Data and Options keys to Default by modifying the Windows Registry. We show you how!

Select "Programs" and then "Make a file type always open in a specific program." Windows displays a list of all the file extensions it recognizes, together with the default program used to open them.

Windows makes it easy for you to open up these files by setting up default programs for each file type -- images files, for example, will open by default in the Windows 10 Photos app.

It’s now time to pick the font you’ll want Microsoft Word to use as a default whenever you open a new document. Tempted as you might be to pick something zany like Wingdings, that’s going to ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

OpenOffice is a popular open source office suite that offers productivity tools like Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. If you use OpenOffice for your word processing, spreadsheet, and ...

Now that you’ve changed the default program for this file, the button for Change All is active. This button will set your Mac to use the selected application to open files of this type.