How to Set Office 2013 as Default

This tutorial will show you how to make Office 2013 the default program for its supported file types.

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to set office 2013 as default allowing you to use your new suite of Office programs as often as possible.

Step # 1 -- Opening Default Programs

As you can see we have a ".docx" file here and when we open it WordPad is the program that opens by default. To associate this file type with Word 2013 you need to click on "Start" then click "Default Programs".

Step # 2 -- Locating the File Type

The "Default Programs" window will appear, from the list of options you need to click, "Associate a file type or protocol with a program". The computer will load a list of file types and you need to locate and click on ".docx" in the list -- as you can see the file type is associate with WordPad.

Step # 3 -- Changing the Default Program

Click on the "Change program..." button and the "Open with" window will appear. Select "Word" and click "OK". Close the open windows and navigate back to where the document is located. You can see that the icon has changed indicating that it will now open with Word - when we click on the file we can see this is the case. This process can be repeated for all the file types that can be associated with Office 2013 and that is how to set office 2013 as default.

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[nicwelsh]

This didn't work for me as there was no .docx option in the drop down list. However, having navigated to 'default programmes' there was also an option to 'set your default programmes', which allowed me to click on Word 1013 and select from a list of file types to associate with it. That worked :-D.
Thanks.

[zombiehunter]

Thank you for the instructional upload. It was helpful to me, as far as I can tell. 

[wallabybob]

Hi,
Thank you for your download. It helped me a lot.
Good luck Johnny

[briancollins]

This did not help me, I selected Excel 2013 as my default program for Excel documents and it did not change. It's trying to open in Excel 2010, which doesn't work for some reason.

[DougKelleyDeveloperAccountant]

this did not work for me; word 2007 remains the default program. Perhaps I should uninstall 2007?

[xyzgee]

I had downloaded office 2013 over office 2010. To uninstall office 2010, I had uninstall incompletely and it became an error in my laptop.. Pls help

[uenragedbro]

No no, you mean "Thank you for uploading"

[TheStanfordKid]

Useless. If the WORD is offered as an option, then it is easier to just choose it as default by right clicking the file and choosing WORD and make default.

Also first 25 seconds of this video are a total waste.