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My computer crashed last night when I was running Spybot Search & Destroy. It might have overheated, because it was pretty a hot day and the bottom of my laptop was also hot. Upon rebooting, all of the text files I had in Word Starter 2010 are now either .docx files or Notepad files.

I can't open them in Office 2010 because I don't have the full version, and when I try to open them in Word Starter, it says the file couldn't be found. Is there any way I can convert them back to word files and retain formatting, or am I going to have to redo 50 files by hand?

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First thing you can try is to try and open one of the files in a word processor supporting .docx format. You can find a list of such software here: Applications with Open XML support. I would recommend: LibreOffice, since it supports portable installation so you can put it on a flash drive and have it available at all times.

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It sounds like your file associations for Word Starter got messed up because Spybot did some registry tweaking. You can restore the file associations by doing the following:

  1. Open Programs & Features in Control Panel
  2. Right click Office Starter 2010, and click Change.
  3. A window will open asking if you want to Repair Office 2010. Proceed with the repair.

I had a similar answer here.

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