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PowerBook-G5

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Jul 30, 2013
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Hey, I was wondering if there is a way to assign a keystroke + click to open a document in an app other than the default one. For example, sometimes I open Pages documents in Preview when I only want to read over and not edit them, which requires a right click > Open With... > and then selecting Preview to open the document in. So what I'm looking for is to be able to click on a document while holding a key combination to open the document in the app tied to the keystroke + click.

Is there an app/setting that can do this? I was thinking Better Touch Tool may be able to do this, but I'm not sure. Thanks!

Also, please no "first world problem" comments as the current "solution" slows down my workflow sometimes and is somewhat clumsy.


EDIT: After poking around in BTT a bit more (and Google), I found a solution that seems to work ok for my purposes. Still, If anyone finds another solution to this, please chime in.
 
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