How do I make Pages the "default" app for opening Word documents?
Just installed Lion. Used MS Office previously. Now want to use iWork. How do I make Pages (Numbers, etc.) the "default" app for opening my Word (Excel, etc.) documents?
TIA
Picman
Just installed Lion. Used MS Office previously. Now want to use iWork. How do I make Pages (Numbers, etc.) the "default" app for opening my Word (Excel, etc.) documents?
TIA
Picman
Select a document in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, and change the Open With setting.
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Select a document in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, and change the Open With setting.
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Niel,
Thanks a bunch! Amazing how much one can forget when one doesn't "use" the steps.
Goodbye MS Office.
Picman
Niel,
You seem to have a handle on this, so I am going to piggyback here with a related problem. I am on Snow Leopard, I have Pages '09 and Word 2003, and Pages '09 is listed as default for .pages documents, however, documents that I make in Pages won't open in Pages when double-clicked; they try to open in Word (obviously unsuccessfully).
When I try to change the default program to Pages (even though it already says it is the default with the word "default" in parentheses), I am only able to change them one at a time. If I try to use the "Change all" function, it gives me the "are you sure?" menu, but when I continue the dropdown box automatically reverts back to Microsoft Word.
Strangely, when I do the same for a .doc document and ask that they all open in Pages, it works just fine.
Any ideas here? I would really like to start working exclusively in Pages and export into Word when needed, but it is a hassle to try to remember to use the "Open With" function all the time.
Thank you! This changed my life. ;-)
Thank you Niel! ABC: Accurate... Brief... Clear...
How do I make Pages the "default" app for opening Word documents?