Re: Default Application in OS X Panther

2004-11-17 Thread Aaron Willems
Select one of your .doc documents. Don't open it. Select get info from the file menu. Under the option for Open with:, select Microsoft Word. Below that you should see this option: Use this application to open all documents like this. Right below that you should see a button called Change All. Clic

Re: Default Application in OS X Panther

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew
When I want to use Nisus, I use Nisus, but when I want to use Word (my default), I should be able to use Word. How annoying. Andrew --- Nancy Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, it's not anything you did. The same thing > happened to me when I > downloaded Nisus. Apparently changing

Re: Default Application in OS X Panther

2004-11-16 Thread Nancy Lawrence
FWIW, it's not anything you did. The same thing happened to me when I downloaded Nisus. Apparently changing your default word processor is supposed to be a "helpful" feature. I spent a while trying to get the icons to change to no avail. Eventually some of them changed but I don't know why.

Re: Default Application in OS X Panther

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew F.
Well I sort of found the answer. I did a "Get Info" on a word document and from there was able to set Word as the default application. Everything works fine now, with all word documents opening in Word, only trouble is that they still have the Nisus icons with "doc" on them. Any way to reset the

Re: Default Application in OS X Panther

2004-11-16 Thread Ben Dyer
Select a Word document in the Finder. Press Cmd-I. Select Info window>Open With>Application popup>"Word". If it's not there, select "Other..." and navigate to Word. Click "Change all..." and confirm. Cheers, Ben On 17 Nov 2004, at 12:47, Andrew F. wrote: Hello. I have Microsoft Office 2004 and

Default Application in OS X Panther

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew F.
Hello. I have Microsoft Office 2004 and Nisus Express 2.1. Recently I upgraded my Nisus to the newest version (very nice, by the way) but somehow my PowerBook got confused and thinks that ALL ".doc> documents should open in Nisus. How can I set the default back to Word? Andrew -- G-Books is