QuickTime nightmare

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grimsongrimson
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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited January 2014
please help - upgraded to the latest QuickTime, and now it tries to be the default application even when I try to download a Word (PC) document! This used to be no problem - Word documents would open in Word.Can anyone tell me how I can get back to this?

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    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Hm, odd. find a Word document in the Finder, and Get Info on that item (under the file menu or apple-i keys). Go to the "Open With" field, choose MS Word as the application in the pop-up menu, then hit the "Change All" button just below that pop-up to make MS Word the default app for all files of that type. You'll get a confirmation dialog, and then try opening that file and another one to make sure it worked. If it doesn't, check the file's extension and check the file permissions.
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    grimsongrimson Posts: 108member
    Thanks for the quick reply. Turns out I was just being an idiot. When I downloaded the document from an email I received, it discombobulated the file name and cut the .doc from the end. Once I added that, it opened automatically in Word, as always.



    Why do PC Word file names change when I download them? Any way to stop this?
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