After installing Mt Lion, can no longer open Word docs. What can I do to fix this?

How do I open my old Word docs with Mountain Lion?

Upgrade to Office 2008 or better, or use a product such as TextEdit, Pages, or OpenOffice to open them.
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"You can't open the application "Microsoft Word" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported"

Upgrade to a new version, Rosetta was dropped two years ago with the introduction of 10.7 Lion.
You could use OpenOffice too.
You might want to bookmark OS X Community and iMac.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/imac
http://www.apple.com/support/

After installing Mountain Lion, Expose no longer works.

After installing Mountain Lion, Expose no longer works.

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As a workaround, does it work to save the files first and then open them after saving?
Sometimes when Firefox has problems handing off a download to another program it is caused by a corrupted settings file. That file is hard to edit, so usually we suggest renaming the file to see whether that resolves the issue. Here's how:
Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either
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* (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information
* type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter
In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button. This should launch a new window listing various files and folders.
Leaving that window open, switch back to Firefox and Exit, either:
* "3-bar" menu button > "power" button
* (menu bar) File > Exit
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Start Firefox back up again and test your Gmail attachments. Any improvement?
Note: This resets some preferences to their defaults, such as which PDF viewer Firefox uses. If you need to update that again, please see this article: [[How to disable the built-in PDF viewer and use another viewer]].

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Hi Rachel,
Have you tried reinstalling Microsoft Word? Have you tried reinstalling Office? Have you run any updates recently for Microsoft Office? There was one that came out this week. You may wish to ask this question over at the Microsoft Word forums, there's a good chance you'll get a better answer as well. This forum is primarily designed for the MacBook Air hardware and interoperability with OS X on a MacBook Air.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_macoffice2008_master

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If using the menu bar, or after pressing "Alt" key
Tools > Options > Tabs, (check) Open new window in a new tab instead
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Hey Bill,
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How to change the behavior of function keys on your Mac
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht3399
Takre care,
-Norm G.

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Why can't I open Word doc. attachments I receive in emails?

All of a sudden, I can no longer open email attachments that I receive as Word documents.

Csound1 wrote:
Andy Mt P wrote:
Don't see how I can choose the file from within Word as it's not saved anywhere?
I have now discovered if I drag the file from mail on to the WORD icon in the doc it will open....seems much clumsier than the old option of clicking on the file to open it
Opening attached pics seems to require the same action as well using iphoto.
A bit of a step back in my opinion....
Save the word file from the email to your Mac (have you never saved an attachment before)?
Post back when you can do as I asked you to.
And remember that we are trying to find out what is wrong, don't be so snappy!
haha...point taken. Wasn't feeling 'snappy' when I typed it, not intended as such...!
If I save it somewhere as you suggested I can then open it
also, as I mentioned if I drag the doc onto WORD in the dock it opens that way as well

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Click on the Desktop. Select Preferences from the Finder menu. Check the General and Sidebar toolbar items. See that the appropriate boxes are checked.

I can no longer open any doc attachments. This was never a problem before. Also the W for Word is not an option in the chooser application drop-down list.

At one point, all my Word icons turned to Microsoft orange icons. I resolved that issue by uninstalling Microsoft Office 2010 and not the starter. I have NEVER had a problem opening doc email attachments I have received. This is a new issue. I used to just double-click on the attachment icon and it opened. Now it gives me nothing. I can't seem to find Microsoft Word as a choice in the drop-down box either. I also tried selecting Microsoft virtual whatever it was, as was suggested in Google, but that did nothing either. I just want to go back to being able to double-click on my attachments and having them pop open. What went wrong in computerland?

Actually, I solved it myself by compacting my inbox. Yes, it was Thunderbird. All my docs can now be opened. Word starter came with my computer already installed. Never had any trouble in two years until recently. I can now pick Microsoft Word virtual handler and it opens it. I still don't know what happened to the Word icon in the drop down box. Maybe it was never there to begin with, because I NEVER had to pick anything to open an attachment before. I just double-clicked on it and it opened.

Can no longer open Word files in finder since upgrading to Mavericks

When I click on Word files on my desktop of in a folder, the Word progrm laucnhes but file will not open. I can only open them through the Application. Any solutions to this? This seems to be across th board microsoft office issue. In Office 2008, so do I need an upgrade or patch?
thank you

louisefromamsterdam wrote:
Hi Brody, It doesn't work because Word wasn't in the dock and now I cant drag it there or do it via 'add to sidebar' - probably because of this awfull Microsoft . is there no other solution to work with mavericks and Word?
thanks for ideas
There, I fixed it for you.
I haven't used Word 2008 in quite a while.
If Word launches, but doesn't open the file, it is something in Word that is not processing the open request from the Finder.
You might try resetting the LauchServices database with this command in Terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user
Can you explain more about not being able to add Word to the Dock or Sidebar?
It may be a corrupt Dock plist or databse causing that. I don't think it would affect Word opening documents, though.
I haven't figured out how to reset the Dock and the Sidebar in Mavericks. The way I used to know doesn't seem to work.

After installing Mt Lion, can no longer open Word docs. What can I do to fix this?

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