Thank you, Jason. That’s really helpful and much appreciated. Gilly
31 Castle Street Wallingford OX10 8DL 01491 825 178 07943 409 403 > On 26 Feb 2015, at 23:22, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2015, at 17:45, Gillian Snoxall wrote: > >> Pat, join the Club! There was a time when Derek and I used to learn >> something from SMUG every single day. Now we hardly understand a word of >> what anyone is talking about. Life certainly does seem to get much harder >> with the passing years. > > You're basically suffering from the fact that lots of software developers > keep reinventing slightly different wheels. Apple have offset this a bit by > offering to open things with something from the App store. If you an > unfamiliar attachment, right-clicking (or control-click on a Mac) on it will > often give you an 'Open with...' to select. > > Any menu that ends with an ellipsis (three dots) will give you options when > you select it, by the way, rather than doing what it says: the ellipsis just > means 'we haven't finished yet...'. > > If your Mac thinks it can open it with something installed you will get a > list (or perhaps only one). If not, it usually offers to take you to the app > store to look there. Of course that might cost you something. > > But it's worth remembering that files are identified by their 'extension' (eg > .docx in Word): googling 'what do I open a docx file with on a mac' will > usually tell you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
