Resetting file associations - won't take effect

Just got a new MacBook for the wife - all of her previous work is saved in MS Office formats, and that is what she's used to working with, so I installed the Mac OS version of Office after uninstalling the demo MS Office that came on the MacBook. I've tried resetting the file associations using the "get info, open with, change all" sequence - I get a dialog box telling me that all files of this type will be opened with the specified application, I hit "continue," and it doesn't set any, not even the one that I had highlighted. If I don't select the "change all" option, the highlighted file opens with the selected application just fine, but if I select "change all," nothing gets changed.
Any idea what's blocking this setting?
Thanks!
Scott

Never mind - my first search of the archives didn't reveal the answer, but I refined the keywords and found it.

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