making word for mac my default program for doc files

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making word for mac my default program for doc files

I just purchased word for mac, was using parallels before. I want to have word for mac be my default program when I click to open doc/docx files from my finder. But it keeps opening up my parallels program and going to the MS version of word. How can I set word for mac as my default program?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Aug 7, 2009 4:44 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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Aug 7, 2009 4:48 PM in response to Montes

Select a file of that type in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, change the Open With entry for it to the desired application, click on Change All, and confirm the action.

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Montes Author

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Aug 7, 2009 4:46 PM in response to Montes

Sorry, I just noticed that it actually does open all my doc files the way I want, but the docx files for some reason are still resorting to the MS version of word in parallels. So any idea how I can fix this?

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Montes Author

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Aug 7, 2009 4:52 PM in response to Montes

Brilliant, thank you!

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