File association problem with excel

hi everybody,
i have the following annoying little problem, couldn't find any answers so far in the forum:
i have some downloaded files (just plain text files) that i call ".in", and finder lists those as "microsoft excel binary document". now i want to associate those files to open with textwrangler as standard app. if i get information for those files and set "open with" to textwrangler, as soon as i click "change all" it reverts the application in the "open with" box to "microsoft excel", meaning i can never change the filetype permanently.
anybody know what i might be doing wrong, or what i can do to make the change stick?
thanks

Hi Gopal,
There is a a column width optimize function of SLIS ALV layout.
colwidth_optimize(1) type c
but, i am not sure if it works.
Also, when the report is generated, there is an option in the menu.
Go to "Setting --> Columns --> Optimize Width"
With this, it optimizes the column width based on data width but when you download, it reverts to the dictionary field length.
Regards,
Vivek

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