[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 50, Issue 22

[James Hurley]

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> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:12:22 -0400
> From: "wilkinw" <macsys at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] Can't set MS Word as the default
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Which cache do you mean? System? Word? Where would I find  it?

Jim


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> On Oct 20, 2008, at 8:47 AM, James Hurley wrote:
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>> I don't know how this happened but my Mac suddenly has trouble
>> recognizing Word documents.
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>> Even the screen icon is now missing on Word documents.
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>> If I control-click on a Word document, the default program to open a
>> Word file is Text Edit. If I select Other and choose MS Word in my
>> Applications folder it does open it word. But only that one time.
>> The next time I try to open it, Text Edit is again the default
>> application.
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>> If I do a Get Info on a Word file, Text Edit is listed as the
>> application in which the file will open. If I select Other and
>> choose Word, then MS Word appears in the drop down menu as the app
>> to open  the file. But if I then click on the "Change All" button,
>> the drop down menu changes to Word Pad, an application that needs to
>> go through Fusion to open.  It is not possible to do a Change All to
>> MS Word.
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>> Any thoughts on this very weird avoidance of Word as the app for
>> opening Word documents?
>>
>> Jim Hurley
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