problem with osx desktop

[yasudab]

I have office x w/ the latest 10.1.5 updates on jaguar. There are
some word documents on the desktop. whenever i click on them, word
does not open the file. THe only way I can open them is if I open up
the word program first, then go to file, open and navigate to the file
and open it. Is there a way to fix this? I have already rebuilt
permissions, but what else can be done?

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

I have office x w/ the latest 10.1.5 updates on jaguar. There are
some word documents on the desktop. whenever i click on them, word
does not open the file. THe only way I can open them is if I open up
the word program first, then go to file, open and navigate to the file
and open it. Is there a way to fix this? I have already rebuilt
permissions, but what else can be done?

CTRL-click the icon of a Word file and choose Get Info. In the Open
With section of the resulting dialog, choose your Word application.
Click Change All.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

CTRL-click the icon of a Word file and choose Get Info. In the Open
With section of the resulting dialog, choose your Word application.
Click Change All.

If it doesn't work, use an application like Cocktail or TinkerTool
System to delete system and user cache and restart. Some of the files in
the Finder will loose their icons for a while but as you launch the
correponding applications, the system will rebuild its icon database.
This could eliminate some nasty icon database corruption issues.


Corentin