Default word processor??

How can I set Pages (or Word, for that matter) as the default word processor for opening attached documents in Mail? They always used to open automatically in Word, but someone has changed the settings somehow and now everything opens in TextEdit!!

Select the icon of one of these files
press cmd + I (⌘-I) to display the Show Info dialog.
choose a new parent program from the popup menu (Pages for instance)
click in the button entitled "Change All"
After that, every file of this kind will be open by the selected program.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 5 avril 2008 14:51:53)

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BUT... Wunderkind Apple Engineers who put ease-of-use above everything, that is still about four steps harder than going into the PREFERENCES on either PAGES or Text Edit, or even having a centralized prefs in the System Preferences Panel that lets you pick and choose what APPs run what files.
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