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You should now be able to double-click the original document—and smile

as it opens in the program you requested.

Note
If the program isn’t listed, you can go find it yourself. Scroll to the very bottom of the list of
proposed apps. If you see “More apps,” click that. Now scroll to the very bottom again until you
see the last item: “Look for another app on this PC.” Now you’re shown a standard Open File
dialog box so you can peruse the entire contents of your Programs folder on a quest for the right
software.

By the way, it’s sometimes useful to associate a particular document type
with a program that didn’t create it. For example, you might prefer that
double-clicking a text file created with WordPad should really open into
Microsoft Word.

Method 2: Start with the program

If you’d prefer to edit the master database of file associations directly, a
special control panel awaits. You can approach the problem from either

direction:

Choose a program and then choose which file types you want it to

take over; or

Choose a filename extension (like .aif or .ico) and then choose a

new default program for it (Method 3, next).

Here’s how to perform the first technique:

1. Open → → Apps → “Default apps.”

You arrive on the “Default apps” page of Settings (Figure 6-13,
left).

2. Choose “Set defaults by app.”

A curious dialog box appears, as shown at middle in Figure 6-13.
It’s a list of every program on your machine that’s capable of