Visio docs trying to open in powerpoint

[Marci Kirkpatrick]

When I try to open a Visio document by double clicking on
it, Powerpoint tries to opent he document and I get an
error message. How do I change it so that visio will
automatically be the default for opening visio documents?

 

[Al Edlund]

quick couple of questions, so that someone may be able to help. How was the
visio drawing pasted (is the image really a visio linked drawing)? Do you
have visio installed on the system that powerpoint is trying to open from?
What is the error?
al

 

[Guest]

The visio drawing I am trying to open was sent to me in
email, so the extension at the end of the doc is vsd. I
can save it to my machine and then open Visio and then
open the doc but I can not double click on it to open it
in visio. When I double click on it, my machine trys to
use Powerpoint to open it rather than visio. I do have
visio installed on my machine so that is why I am confused
as to why it is not opening the docs. The error message I
get states the Powerpoint can not open the type of doc I
am trying to open.... any suggestions
marci

 

[Al Edlund]

the file type has probably been wrongly applied to power point. go to
my computer => tools => folder options => file types and make sure vsd files
are associated with visio.
al