Apple Mail: Changing Default "Helper" Apps

[southerndoc]

When I installed OpenOffice, Mail's default app for opening .doc files was changed to OpenOffice. I would like to change this back to Word but cannot find out how to do this. When I right click on the document within Mail, I can use the "open with" option to open with Word, but I can't find a way to make this the default app to open documents with.

Can somebody help?

 

[miles01110]

Go to a .doc file in the Finder and "Get Info" (Command + I). You'll see towards the bottom the "Open With" section, where you can choose Word. Be sure to hit "Change All" so all files ending with .doc will be opened with Word.

 

[southerndoc]

Hmm, thanks. I had done this a long time ago when I installed OpenOffice, and when I did it just now, Word was listed as the default app.

I changed it to OpenOffice, clicked change all, and then immediately changed it back to Word.

That seemed to fix the problem.