I don't know how this happened but my Mac suddenly has trouble recognizing Word documents. Even the screen icon is now missing on Word documents. If I control-click on a Word document, the default program to open a Word file is Text Edit. If I select Other and choose MS Word in my Applications folder it does open it word. But only that one time. The next time I try to open it, Text Edit is again the default application. If I do a Get Info on a Word file, Text Edit is listed as the application in which the file will open. If I select Other and choose Word, then MS Word appears in the drop down menu as the app to open the file. But if I then click on the "Change All" button, the drop down menu changes to Word Pad, an application that needs to go through Fusion to open. It is not possible to do a Change All to MS Word. Any thoughts on this very weird avoidance of Word as the app for opening Word documents? Jim Hurley