[P1] TextEdit bumping Word

[Mike Wallinga]

I would not delete TextEdit unless absolutely necessary, because you 
will want it around to read/write plain text and rich text documents.  
(You could handles these formats in Word, too, but that's using a 
sledgehammer to pound in a nail.)

Anyway, I would try this first:

1. Find any Word document in the Finder, click on it to select it, and 
choose Get Info from the File menu
2. If the Open with: area is collapsed, click on the triangle to expand 
it.
3. TextEdit is probably the application listed in the drop-down box.  
Pick Word instead.  (Or, if for some reason Word isn't listed in the 
drop-down box, go to the bottom of the list, choose Other... and 
manually select Word)
4. Click on the Change All button to make all Word documents open in 
Word by default.

Hope this helps!
- Mike W.

On Feb 16, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Rolf Rykken wrote:
> Hi all!
> On my iBook G3 SE TextEdit is bumping Word on Classic from opening 
> Word documents. How can I avoid this (it doesn't happen on my iMac 
> G3); can I, should I, dump TextEdit?
> Thanks!