There's a quicker way. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the ikon.
Select "Open with" and choose the application you want to open the
document with from the list.
Note that if you use the "Get Info" window, you can set the preferences
to open up all documents of the same type with your favourite
application. For PDF files, I prefer to use "Preview", the OS10
application for opening these documents.
John Taylor.
On 9 Apr 2004, at 3:51 PM, Greg Manzie wrote:
Click on the file then >Get Info>Open With
Happy Easter, Regards
Greg Manzie
Macintosh G4 400 MHz (PCI graphics), 640 Meg RAM, OS10.3.3,
10 Gig & 20 Gig internal HD's, SCSI card, Netgear RP 614 Router,
Alcatel Speed Touch ADSL Modem through built in Ethernet.
On 09/04/2004, at 3:04 PM, Chris Burton wrote:
HI everyone
Could someone please advise me how to select the default application
that is used by the OS when new documents, pictures, sound files, etc
etc are copied or downloaded to the hard drive?
For example, I have a Powerbook 15" G4 1000 running 10.3.3. I have
downloaded some reference papers that are pdf's. The icon of these
papers in the folder on the HD does not show the red Acrobat reader
icon indicating they are pdf's?
I have reader version 5 on the drive but have to open it then open
the pdf paper, rather than clicking directly on the pdf.
thanks for any help. It has got to be a simple one, but I just cant
remember how to tell OSX how to do it
Chris
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