Ian-

Wow, you're right! I just tried your suggestion with Word, and it worked!
Amazing! Thank you!

Bobbi

"Ian" <Ian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> A possible factor here is that recent versions of Word, Excel etc. don't
> use
> standard shortcuts. (Why I'm not sure, but they use some special kind of
> shortcut that's not found anywhere else)
>
> You can try creating a standard shorcut to winword.exe etc. in the Progam
> Files folder, and see if that works. In principle it should, as all
> dropping
> a file does is to execute "program.exe %1" where %1 is the file's full
> pathname.
>