Adobe is trying to open my Word documents

My Word documents try to open in Adobe reader but an error message comes up. How do I stop Adobe from trying to open my Word documents?

I don't think that's the answer for your file association problem; see
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-default-programs#1TC=windows-7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-file-open-program#1TC=windows-7

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