Re: How to open ".doc" files with Word 2004 by DEFAULT instead of Office 2008?
- From: John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:30:10 +0930
Hi Phillip:
It's not obvious to me!! :-)
Quite the reverse: this is a designed feature to FIX a bug. The bug was
that if your Launch Services Database got damaged, Word would lose its file
type associations and nothing would open on a double-click.
The fix is that every time any member of Microsoft Office starts, it
re-populates the launch services to launch the latest installed version of
each application.
You may not "like" it, but it's not a bug, it's how they meant it to work.
I bugged it during the beta and got stamped on :-)
Cheers
On 8/08/08 3:42 AM, in article umncakL#IHA.4320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Phillip Jones" <pjones1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What MS should have done, though was fix this Bug. all applications
except Office 2008 allow you to decide which version of an application
opens a File. Just select the file, do get info. And go down to open
files of this type with and choose the desired application.
Even Office 2004 allowed this. This is an Obvious bug that should have
been fixed.
Now Taz Before you get your knickers in a Bunch. I am not taking away
from anything you said in your post. I am not correcting or anything.
I'm just expressing my opinion That office 2008 is the only application
package I have that does this. And there fore is a bug.
CyberTaz wrote:
FWIW - I find it safer & more convenient to simply right-click the file &
select the preferred version from the Open With options... I also don't have
to jump through hoops to get a .___x file open in the right version.
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
On 8/3/08 8:01 PM, in article
2ca2a07c-fdff-4931-b281-000261af61bf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"krienkeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <krienkeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a temporary solution. I also hate having to open 2008 except
for .docx files etc. I use macros a lot in excel and 2008 does not
support them. What I do is create a new folder outside of the
Applications folder call it whatever and drag the office 2008 folder
inside of that. I then lock the folder by get info and then clicking
lock. The programs will still be useable, but not chosen as default.
The problem is that as soon as you need a .docx etc it memorizes the
location and opens it every time. If you work with .doc, .xls most of
the time this is a good option.
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