Windows 10: Recent Microsoft update changed my ability to open documents.

I use Open Office for my documents. I do not own and have never used the Word program. The new update yesterday changed something and now my documents won't open. When I double click the document "Word" looks like it is going to open but it does not. The Word box is only there for a second and then disappears. Nothing else happens and the document does not open. Open Office is set as the default. I would appreciate any assistance. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Open Office to see if that would make a difference but it did not.

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Windows 10 Office 365 cannot open files from: recent file list

Thanks for the tip! I followed all above steps.

So far I can open files from the Recent files list when I enter Word itself, however I still am unable to open any documents using the Word icon pinned to the taskbar:





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Re-enabling recent documents

An update with auto-patcher disabled the recent documents under start menu in windows Xp. Any way to get it back?
Also how can I set it to show only recently viewed text documents.

 

Office 365 - removing recent documents




- how do I remove an entry from the list of recent documents that shows when My Office opens..??