Error message when opening word doc: "Not Implemented" (Word for Windows)

I am having the same problem repeatedly!  It has occurred even after downloaded & installed the patch through Recovery Assistant.  The only way I could open saved Word & Excel documents is to open a new document and retrieve what I needed from the previous viewed list.  This is extremely frustrating!  Especially with time sensitive documents for school!!!

Sounds like your issue is different.  Even with the "Not Implemented" problem that the rest of us have posted, the file can always be opened by starting the application (ie, Word or Excel) and then going to "File" -"Open" and open the existing file.  It is only when double clicking in Windows File Explorer that there is an issue.  Also, if, instead of double clicking, you right click and select "Open with" and then select "Choose Another App", followed by "OK", it should also open the file.

If you send me a copy of the document, referencing this thread in the covering email message, I will investigate the issue.

This is happening with multiple documents, but when my wife restarts, those same documents will work for a time, then they may/may not fail down the road. Documents that have worked for years, will all of a sudden not open with a double click, and you have to go through opening the program, then the open command which makes for long days.

It is intermittent, and it affects different documents at different times.

It feels like the cursor jumping around the issue. it doesn't happen all the time, but it happens and hard to recreate.

this has been happening to my wife for a year or more, and she just puts up with it for now.

The only common thing that I have noticed in this thread, is that the document folder is in the One Drive folder. I have set my wife up to have the documents stay on the computer and use the cloud as a backup Of course after a couple of Windows updates, that setting has been changed by Microsoft (Which pisses me off every time I have to reset that damn setting)

So I doubt looking at a document will tell you anything. But I guess anything is possible, but that will not explain why it works sometimes, then doesn't work, then works again after a restart.

Go to FIle>Options>Save and check the box for Save to Computer by default and then set the Default local file location.

I have never had that setting changed by an update,

In my opinion, it is ALWAYS best to open document by using the Open facility in the application and do that has no effect on the length of the day.