Windows 10: How to stop Windows or Word from auto downloading word documents in order to view them?

I'm grading papers online...in a Moodle platform called AsULearn. When I try to open a student's paper in Google docs that's been uploaded to a link, it automatically asks me where to download it in Word, rather than allowing me to simply open and read it. Our tech department said it's a setup with my computer and Windows 10. My desktop at work doesn't do this...any ideas how to change settings? Thanks






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(MS Word) auto window restoring

Ok, When I have a word file open, i minimize that word window to open another word file. but what does word do?! it opens new word window as well as restores other minimized word window!!! *Bang Head :banghead:
this is just killing me! I checked all option and googled all i could

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I have XP and MS Office 2007

 

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In the past year or so I've noticed another quirk where a downloaded Word document or other Office document won't open regardless of the steps I take to open them. After deleting the file and re-downloading the document it opens without issue. I've been using Chrome almost exclusively so I'm not sure if I've experienced this with Explorer or Firefox. So one last step to try might be to obtain another copy of your files if they are being generated and fetched externally to your system (ie. try downloading them again as the file might have simply been corrupted).