Microsoft KB Archive/141215

= WD: "The Application Associated with the Selected Template..." =

Article ID: 141215

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a
 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q141215



SYMPTOMS
When you open a document using the Open Office Document command from the Start menu or from the Office Shortcut Bar (OSB), you receive the following error message:

The application associated with the selected template could not be started, or the application could not use the selected template.



Case 1
Cause: Your document does not have the correct extension for the Office program it should be associated with.

Case 2
Cause: Office cannot find the application associated with the document because the application is incorrectly registered or the registration information has become corrupt.



Case 1
Rename the document with the proper extension.

Case 2
Reregister Office by running Setup with the /y switch. For information on how to do this, please see the section titled "Rebuilding the Original Office for Windows 95 Registry Settings" in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

134863 OFF: How to Reregister Shared Programs in Office 95

Additional query words: word95 word7 7.0 winword word97 word8

Keywords: KB141215

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