Re: How to open ".doc" files with Word 2004 by DEFAULT instead of Office 2008?
- From: Phillip Jones <pjones1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:26:41 -0400
Might Know Ms would do something just to be different
to fix a launch service problem if it just applies to MS product do get info on a group of Ms word Files, right click , select get info group or whatever its named.
then go to, open with choose 2004 or 2008 word then click on open all fies of this type with...
then click on the red (dismiss button) and your set.
if you have problems with more than just MS products (or any one particular application use a utility such as onyx to rebuild the launch system data base,
You may have to choose an application the first time but its then set.
To me when only one group of applications does something against the grain. then Its a Bug. I don't care if MS or the Pope sees it different its a bug.
When other applications such as Adobe or Intuit or whomever, comply and The MS doesn't its a bug. Ms may call it a feature.
You don't know how teed off I was the first time I loaded Office 2008 and tried to open Word and Excel Documents in 2004 and it would let me.
I would go to get info set as I had been doing, upwards of 50 times. Before I decided for some cruel reason only MS could fathom They had disabled this. And I did demand the previous method be reinstated in in a feedback request. That's Like one day your driving your car, then the next day you go to drive it and you suddenly find the steering wheel and all the controls set so you have to set in the rear seat to drive the car.
John McGhie wrote:
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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