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I have some word docs and when I open them they are displayed or opened with text edit, is there a way to have pages open and display them instead?
 
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Right click > Get Info > Open With: Pages > Change All.

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Right click > Get Info > Open With: Pages > Change All.

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I don't get the change all option. I get to the "open with part" and I see
Pages 3.0
Pages 2.0.3

I click on one of those and it opens in pages so I got that to work but I need to do this all the time to get the Word docs to open in pages, text edit is still set as the default, how can I set pages as the default.
 
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Maybe this might help ;)
 
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Maybe this might help ;)


It still does not work. When doing what you said I do not get that option, it just opens it with pages but does not give me the option to open all files that are similar.

I get to the open with pages part and I have to select one of the 2 versions I listed above and it opens but it does not give me the pop up menu that you pictured.
 
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Choose Other, then go to your Applications Folder and choose Word. That should give you the option to choose Word instead of just Pages 2.0.3 or Pages 3.0.

Good luck <><
 
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Choose Other, then go to your Applications Folder and choose Word. That should give you the option to choose Word instead of just Pages 2.0.3 or Pages 3.0.

Good luck <><

I took word completely off my mac. I want Pages to be the default app. that opens all the old word docs. that I have on my computer not text edit. I go through the steps that the other poster said to do but I don't get the option to open all similar docs. with pages. I get to the second to last stage and thats where I get the option to open with one of to versions of pages and thats it.
 
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What? You mean you don't have a Change All button? How about for other file types like Jpegs and such? Still no change all button?
 
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What? You mean you don't have a Change All button? How about for other file types like Jpegs and such? Still no change all button?


Thank you for being patient with me. That is exactly what I am saying, following your steps I DO NOT get the change all button. I am heading to Vegas Tuesday to help my Mother switch from PC to Mac so I might have to have someone at the Apple store take a look at it. If you can think of anything in the mean time please let me know.
 
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All I can say is run a disk permissions check or something (Disk Utility > Repair Disk Permissions) but I don't think it'll help.
 

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