How do I make Pages my default program to open things instead of text

[steel1212]

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[maineshootah]

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Try this.

1. Ctrl-click on the file.

2. When the contextual menu opens, press and hold down alt.

3. 'Open With' will now change to 'Always Open With'

4. Select the program you want.

[steel1212]

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Try this.

1. Ctrl-click on the file.

2. When the contextual menu opens, press and hold down alt.

3. 'Open With' will now change to 'Always Open With'

4. Select the program you want.

But won't that just always open that ONE file with Pages? I want it to be the one to open all my documents with unless I need something else to open them with.

[maineshootah]

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Try this.

1. Ctrl-click on the file.

2. When the contextual menu opens, press and hold down alt.

3. 'Open With' will now change to 'Always Open With'

4. Select the program you want.

But won't that just always open that ONE file with Pages? I want it to be the one to open all my documents with unless I need something else to open them with.

It should open that entire type of document.

However, we need to be specific when we talk "documents". Are they .txt, .rtf, .doc, .pdf... You would have to do those steps for each file type.

Ok.. another way as well.

Single click on the file

then press command (apple) " I "

on the menu that pops up, half way down, select the "Open With" option, and choose pages.

Be sure to click the "Change All" button as well. This will change the settings for the document for all the files of that type.

Edited November 27, 2009 by maineshootah

[steel1212]

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Try this.

1. Ctrl-click on the file.

2. When the contextual menu opens, press and hold down alt.

3. 'Open With' will now change to 'Always Open With'

4. Select the program you want.

But won't that just always open that ONE file with Pages? I want it to be the one to open all my documents with unless I need something else to open them with.

It should open that entire type of document.

However, we need to be specific when we talk "documents". Are they .txt, .rtf, .doc, .pdf... You would have to do those steps for each file type.

They are Pages documents that I save as word Documents so that people using PCs can see them. If I need to change anything I open them with Pages, change what I need to change and save as word again. Its my WSBs that I'm doing this with.