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Making WordPerfect Lightning Your Default Document Viewer

Corel® WordPerfect® Lightning™ is a free, downloadable word processor that you can use to create, capture, and view content in a variety of ways. One of the components of WordPerfect Lightning is the Viewer, which allows you to open and navigate WordPerfect, Microsoft® Word, and PDF documents.

WordPerfect Lightning launches and displays documents faster than a full-featured word processor or PDF reader. What's more, WordPerfect Lightning is less than 25 MB, making much larger, format-specific readers redundant.

To make Lightning the default document viewer

  1. In Windows Explorer, right-click a WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, or PDF file and select Open With > Choose Program.

  2. In the Programs list, choose WordPerfect Lightning.

  3. Enable the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box.

  4. Click OK.

    Repeat steps 1 to 4 for each document type that you want to open with Lightning.

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