If you have the file high lighted and hit the application key you can use
the open with menu to open the file in Word. Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
Alicia,
Dean's right. If the file extension isn't .doc, then it wouldn't open in
Word. You can *voluntarily* open it in Word by loading it differently, by
launching Word, and then using the control O (or from the files menu) Open
command to go to the file, wherever it is, and hit Enter. But if you're
just hitting enter on the file in a files list view in My computer or
Windows Explorer, Dean's right; if the extension is .txt, either Notepad or
WordPad will automatically open it, depending on its length (Notepad can
handle only smaller files).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 9:58 AM
Subject: RE: opening two files in MS Word
Alicia, you may have Word 2003 on your system, but when you click on the file, it is not Word that is opening, it is probably Wordpad as somebody else mentioned.
There are several ways to make the files actually open in Word. For one,
from within Word, click open Ctrl-o. Now first, tab once, and arrow until
Files of Type says Al files. Now shift-tab twice and arrow, and assuming
youre in the folder where the documents are, they'll show up n the list and
you can open them in Word, and you will get the desited result.
If you want to do a variation on what you are now doing, instead of clicking
on the file, hit the application key and choose Send To, choice n from that
menu. Then most likely Word will appear as one of your send to destinations
and you can make the files open in Word that way.
Dean
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