Why is MS word saving the document in txt form and not a DOCX

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Example I created a word document Named "DOC" this is a word document that is being saved in TXT format and not DOCX format. This has been happening to all the Word documents on my system. I open a word doc made changes then saved as (different name) and it still saved it in a TXT format.

When you "Save as", do you see an option to select the filetype? What option is selected there by default? — Opifex
Can you add the screenshot of it, how it looks in file explorer and the properties box? — Shri Hari
I can not past a screen shot, but here is what it looks like — user14144138

Almost Dead Almost Dead · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-21T15:51:50

Follow the steps below:

Click the File tab
Click Options
Click Save

Under Save documents, click Word Document (*.docx) in the Save files in this format.

Why is MS word saving the document in txt form and not a DOCX

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