


It flashes immediately by double-clicking and then closes unexpectedly.

Run EaseUS Mac file recovery software > Scan mac drive > Restore lost Mac word file. Start Word > Click "Open" on the File menu > Click "Repair" on the Open button. Open "Library" > Open "Preferences" > Copy file to desktop. Thanks again for all your help - I learned some good things about how to connect files and apps which will no doubt come in handy in the future.Open Disk Utility > Select the primary hard disk on Mac and select "First Aid" > Click "Run". Not sure how the Speed indicator got moved so far to the right, but I have backed it off a notch to a normal double-click speed that I've used for years, and all seems to be working. SO - I'm embarrassed to say that I just wasn't double-clicking fast enough. Went back to the Mouse Prefs Pane and moved the Double-CLick Speed indicator all the way to the right again ("Fast") and went back to Finder and focused on double-clicking files as fast as I could and they opened fine. I backed it off one "notch", went back to the Finder and double-clicked on a Word file and Voíla! - the file and Word opened as it should. I checked the Keyboard/Mouse Prefs Pane and the double-click speed for the mouse was set completely to the right. I even deleted the and restarted, thinking the Finder prefs file might be corrupt, but still no change, so took the original plist file out of the Trash and put it back in the Library>Preferences folder and restarted again. The only way I can still launch files and the proper App is through Control-click and "Open with" command. Double-clicking on these docs in the Finder does not open files or the files creator Application. Followed these "Get Info" box instructions for two different files and their apps - the correct apps were already listed as the Default, but I reselected them and "Changed All" again anyway.
