If Word files are saving in WordPad format or the documents are opening in Wordpad instead of Word, then here is how to fix it.

The WordPad program is a simple word processing program that is included with every copy of Windows. Even though Microsoft removed the ability to save a document in the .doc format using WordPad ...

Well, this is an easy fix. We don’t know who or what the “competition enforcers” are, but WordPad comes with all versions of Windows and can open any Microsoft Word document.