Opening Wrong Word Program for Attachments

My wife has a new iMac-intel. We installed office X, but had not started using it. The first email she received had a word document. She opened it and it was opened in Word 2003 which is a trial version. I moved Office 2003 to the trash and now every time she trys to open an attachment that is a word document it says it can not find the application, and she has to select Word X as the application. Is there a way to make Word X the default app to open a .doc file? Thanks.

Stanley
Control-click on the document icon in the message window, and select "Open With..."; Choose "Other" and then navigate to the Word Document Icon in the Office X Folder and select that.
Or
Save the document to a folder and then open in a Finder window. Highlight the document icon and choose get info from the "File" menu. Choose "Open With...", select "Other" and navigate to the Office X folder and select the Word icon there.
You can then specify to use Word in Office X for all similar documents.

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