Preferences under Snow Leopard
Since installing Snow Leopard, attachments to emails open in Pages or Numbers rather than in Word or Excel. I cannot find a way of setting preferences so that the attachments open in Word or Excel. Can any-one steer me in the right direction? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. MacBook Pro Snow Leopard iWork 09 Entourage 2004 Excel 2004 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Preferences under Snow Leopard
Hello Michael, What format are the attachments (.rtf, .pdf or what)? You can open the paper clip to show the attachment in the email, then Control click on the attachment Open With select the application you want. Or save the attachment to you desk top, click once on it Get Info Open with - select what app you want, then Change All Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard On 02/09/2009, at 6:26 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Since installing Snow Leopard, attachments to emails open in Pages or Numbers rather than in Word or Excel. I cannot find a way of setting preferences so that the attachments open in Word or Excel. Can any- one steer me in the right direction? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. MacBook Pro Snow Leopard iWork 09 Entourage 2004 Excel 2004 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Preferences under Snow Leopard
Good morning Ronnie, The attachments were .doc The suggestion that I save the attachment to the desktop and by using Get Info select the application that I want to open the attachment, worked. On opening the document I was greeted with a message to the effect that I was opening Word for the first time and was I sure I wanted to do that. I've been using Word for over a decade: It seems to me that Mac is getting more and more like Microsoft in trying to dictate behaviour! On 3/9/09 7:54 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello Michael, What format are the attachments (.rtf, .pdf or what)? You can open the paper clip to show the attachment in the email, then Control click on the attachment Open With select the application you want. Or save the attachment to you desk top, click once on it Get Info Open with - select what app you want, then Change All Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard On 02/09/2009, at 6:26 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Since installing Snow Leopard, attachments to emails open in Pages or Numbers rather than in Word or Excel. I cannot find a way of setting preferences so that the attachments open in Word or Excel. Can any- one steer me in the right direction? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. MacBook Pro Snow Leopard iWork 09 Entourage 2004 Excel 2004 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Preferences under Snow Leopard
On 2/09/2009 6:26 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Since installing Snow Leopard, attachments to emails open in Pages or Numbers rather than in Word or Excel. I cannot find a way of setting preferences so that the attachments open in Word or Excel. Can any-one steer me in the right direction? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. Apple silently changed Snow Leopard to no longer honour type and creator codes but use file extensions instead. Sigh. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/511/cpsid_51110.html Thanks, Shay -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
