Re: Open wo rendered page in excel
Re: Open wo rendered page in excel
- Subject: Re: Open wo rendered page in excel
- From: Denis Stanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:28:23 +1300
Hi Ray
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 04:54 PM, Ray Ackland wrote:
One thing you can do (although this is away from WebObjects) is to
drag the file to the Excel icon while holding down the option and
command keys.
Thank you for that. A gap in my Mac experience.
Alternatively you can change the pop-up menu displaying "recommended
applications" to "all applications" to enable Excel as a choice in the
"open with" procedure.
I should have tried that. I somehow missed noticing that "recommended
applications" was in a pop-up.
For reasons unknown, but presumably the result of my earlier
experiments, MS Word has become application of choice for .csv files so
I no longer get the right to choose within the "open" dialog.
It is possible to get a similar dialog by selecting the .csv file and
doing "get info". This includes an "Open with" section which in my
case is now showing MS Word. Switching this to Microsoft Excel, and
then clicking Change All for good measure produces one of those
nonsensical warning messages that keep developers amused :
"Are you sure you want to change all your Microsoft Excel documents to
open with application "Microsoft Excel"?
This change will apply to all Microsoft Excel documents with extension
".csv".
Say what?
It's rather hard to think of a reason to refuse an offer like that.
After clicking continue I've re-run the application to produce a new
.csv file. Double clicking on this now opens in Excel, but dragging it
to Excel of opening from Excel's File Open is unsuccessful unless
employing the option-command combination above, or switching from "All
readable documents" to "All documents"
It seems that one one of several file tagging mechanisms is being
satisfied here. With your help the Finder's "Opens With" setting is
now OK, but it would be nice if the file could be fully associated with
Excel when it was created.
Thanks for your help. Why aren't you at the beach like any other
Aucklander?
Denis
Ray.
On 8/01/2004, at 14:29, Denis Stanton wrote:
The odd part is Excel doesn't want anything to do with my file. I
rather hoped Safari might nudge Excel into opening it. When that
didn't happen I double-clicked the file in the finder. It says it
can't find any suitable application, so I help out by by navigating
to my applications folder where I find I can choose any application
EXCEPT Excel. Excel is greyed out. Word, or even PowerPoint are
available choices, but not Excel. If I drag my .csv file to the
Excel icon in the dock it doesn't want to know. I can open it with
BBEdit though.
Denis Stanton
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