Default file opener?

This questions involves all of the iWork '08 applications.
How do I set these applications to be the default application for opening files sent to me?
In other words, when I receive a .ppt file and double-click to open, my computer uses Adobe to attempt to open. With .doc and .xls files, my computer uses AppleWorks. I can open these files in iWork by using CTRL->Open with...->Numbers/Keynote/Pages....and when I do that it tells me that Adobe/AppleWorks is the default.
So again, how do I change this so that I can double-click the file and have it open in the appropriate iWork application? Thanks.

Hello
This question is not specific to iWork's products, it's a generic one.
Select the icon of one of those files (say a xxx.ppt one)
Press cmd + I to display the Showt file info window.
In this window you will see an "Open with" menu.
Navigate to the wished application, here Keynote
Select it
then click onto the "Change all" button
After that, double clicking a xxx.ppt file's icon will open it in Keynote
Using the same process you will be able to link .doc files to Pages
and .xls files to Numbers.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 13 novembre 2007 21:30:20)

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