MacBook Pro setting default program

Can you do this: click with two fingers on an "excel" file, choose "open with", select excel. It opens with excel.

After try to evoke GetInfo in Finder.

Next time, try selecting the file, then command - I to get a Get Info.

ccritten wrote:

Thanks John. In the dropdown list for File, there is no Get Info. Could it be under something else?

No. As I understand the "Get Info" selection is not present in the Finder's File menu, and it's not even "greyed out".

That's just not right. Reinstalling macOS is justified: How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support. It should have appeared in a right-click contextual menu anyway.

Hmmm, 10.13.6 here & both CMD+i & CMD+Alt+i gives the desired result.

Alt key has also been called Option key.

⌘ i and ⌥ ⌘ i are identical except when applied to a selection of items:

• When of two or more items are selected, ⌘ ⌥ i will display a single, "Multiple Item Info" window.
• ⌘ i will display individual windows for each one of the selected items.

That still doesn't explain why there is no Get Info menu item in File. There certainly ought to be.

Good work.

I don't have the issue in this thread, but to get GetInfo in Finder CMD+I does not give GetInfo and Open with, but here CMD+Alt+i gives the desired result. (I don't understand why).

Lex

What OS are you on Lex?

Installed or changed any KB Shortcuts?

Mojave, HighSierra, Windows 10.

No serious changes.

Lex

I can right click on a file but I don't get 'Get Info'...

I don't know why that isn't working, but you can simply select the file, then File > Get Info... > Open with > select, then Change All... and confirm.