Oh, that's awesome! thank you! I had looked for this in system prefs, and not found it, so thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Best, Donna > On Sep 22, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Pablo Sandoval <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Donna, > You can change which application is associated with “MS-Word” documents by > locating a Word document you wish to open. Hit VO + Shift + M to open the > context menu. Go down to “Open with”, and press right arrow to access the > submenu. Once in the “Open with “ menu go down to “other”, and hit return. > Locate the application you wish to open the file with using the up and down > arrows, in this case, “Text Edit”, now VO right arrow until you find “always > open with”, check this box, and VO right until you reach “Open”. Your Word > docs will now open in Text Edit. > I hope this is of some help. > Have a great day. > >> On Sep 22, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Anne, >> >> As always, thank you! Do you know if there is a way to configure the Mac so >> that Word files automatically open in Text Edit rather than Pages? >> thanks, >> Donna >>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Donna, >>> >>> You can open Word files in TextEdit so, for the Pages files, export them as >>> Word then you can open them in TextEdit and save them as RTF. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>>> On 22 Sep 2015, at 16:06, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> The documents in question are either Word or pages docs. I didn't think >>>> you could open those in Text Edit. Can you? >>>> Cheers, >>>> Donna >>>>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 8:41 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think you are correct. Could you skip Pages and open your document in >>>>> TextEdit and then export to RTF from there? >>>>> >>>>> CB >>>>> >>>>> On 9/22/15 9:26 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote: >>>>>> It is not possible to either directly save a file in RTF format or >>>>>> export a file in RTF format. If this has changed in a later version of >>>>>> the app, I will stand corrected. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have tried numerous times to do this without success. Is it >>>>>>> possible? 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