Craig's tips are interesting (I didn't know about dragging the file into an= application already opened), but the one I use most often in a Microsoft e= nvironment is simply to select the file in Windows Explorer, right click th= e Open With option (which will give you a choice of several obvious editing= programs which can be clicked plus the option to Choose With - which allow= s you to select any editing program on your computer. My big issue is editing HTML files people have created using MS Word, where= it is difficult to convince Windows to let you use anything else. Open Wit= h solves the problem. It is so obvious, I often forget it's there.=20 Regards. Bill Hall Documentation Systems Analyst Head Office, Engineering Tenix Defence Nelson House Annex, Nelson Place Williamstown, Vic. 3016 Australia Tel: +61 3 9244 4820 (Direct) URL: http://www.tenix.com Mailto:bill.hall@xxxxxxxxx ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************