Thank you to those who previously tried to help with my problem. I'll try to state it clearer. For some reason documents I've saved as Word Documents in Windows XP have changed themselves to Wordpad. Can I turn off Wordpad? How can these documents be changed from WordPad back into Word Documents. I was asked by David Abernathy about what version of XP I was using and it is Windows XP, not Office. And as how to I open the files -- well I simply double click on the file as I've always done. Kevin asked "Are you saying that, when you open a MS Word document, instead of opening in MS Word, it opens in WordPad ?" and yes that is exactly what is happening. The MS Word document, instead of opening in MS Word instead opens in WordPad. I did watch the video that was suggested, but a right click on the WordPad document does not bring up a menu with the OPEN WITH listing. Any other ideas?? Thank you, Kathleen Rizer