Make Pages default text editor

How do I make Pages the default text editor? (Double click a .txt file and Pages opens instead of Appleworks)

Hello kelwhite01,
welcome to the Pages Discussions. Select a ".txt" Document in a Finder window and open the Infowindow for it (shortcut: "command" and "i"). In the middle of the window you see a section titled "Open with". There you can choose the app you want to open the selected document with. After choosing Pages, press the button at the bottom of the section to order the system to open every document of that type with Pages.

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Pages - Default Text Editor?

How can I make Pages my default text editor?

Hi DennisG,
Thank you for the link. Now I have it, small file download. Yes it does look interesting, it will be fun to play around with getting to know it.
On a side note to both you and Yvan: Back in my Windows days I did MS Office tech support. That caused me to became quite a Word junky creating specialty docs, brochures, and the like. With the arrival of Pages rarely do I use Word, only when someone needs assistance with a Word doc. I've moved to Pages, for what I do it's so much better than Word 2004 (don't have 2008).
Some friends using AW want help with their AW thingys, so to assist them I reinstalled AW. Wow, I question why for years I hadn't used it: now I use AW more than Pages and Numbers. It amazes me how fast AW is, plus I like the DB as well. Yes the word processor and spreadsheet aren't as graphical as Numbers and Pages however, the print outs are very good, and both modules do numerous things Pages and Numbers yet cannot do.
The more I use AW the more I understand why folks wished Apple, rather than start iWork from scratch, ported AW to iWork. Let's hope the next version of iWork will catch up to AW becoming the cats meow perhaps.
Again thank you for the Bean link.
Sincerely,
RicD
Sincerely,
RicD

Set default text editor (no type, creator or extension)

I would like BBedit to be the default text editor not TextEdit.
I work in Terminal a lot and often encounter files that were sent to me by someone using Linux and have no type, creator or extension. I want these to open in BBedit not TextEdit.
The problem can be recreated like this:
Create an empty file in the Terminal like this:
%touch testfile
Select testfile in the Finder and set BBedit as the application to open this file. Click the "Change all" button to make this global.
I then get an error about there being not enough information. I'm given the option to update and I do.
Then double clicking on testfile does, in fact, open the file in BBedit.
Now the rub. If I then generate another file called testfile2 like this:
%touch testfile2
Testfile 2 opens in TextEdit when double clicked in the Finder.
What am I doing wrong?

I'm not sure how to set a default for files like that. What I do for files that aren't cooperative like that is just have BBEdit (well, actually, TextWrangler for me) on the Dock and then just drag and drop them.
You could potentially use an AppleScript or shell script to set the creator code to 'R*ch' for a batch of files. Type and creator codes used to be the Mac's alternative to extensions, but they were unfortunately left behind in Mac OS X, since the rest of the computing world didn't understand them. There's still support for them hiding in the OS, though. Looks like there's a script that'll do the trick here:
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/setcreatorcodeofselection1.0.html

Default text-editor

When I download a text-file in Safari, by default TextEdit is launched. Unfortunately, it cannot recognise the numerous fields in the Word-documents that are involved.
Can I change the default text-editor to Word ?

paieye wrote:
I am not quite sure what you have in mind when you say to select the file-icon. I find the link in Safari, and click on it. That produces the 'Downloads' window, which eventually shows the file as downloaded. I can put the focus on to the row containing the file name, but I cannot highlight it. What ought I to be doing ?
Find the file in the Downloads folder in your Home folder, not in the Downloads window. Then do as suggested.

Blank Icons on .doc files when make Pages default.

When i make pages default for .doc or .docx files (for exemple), they become blank icons. It's terrible. How to solve this??? I've tried a lot of options but always with no sucess. I selected the file .doc or .docx, click cmd+I and select Pages to open all documents on this kind........and then all files .doc or docx gains a black icon!!! I have repeated this same operation but forcing/change the icon of the file (with cmd+I and put a pages icon on the up letf side).......result: all files became blank icons...except that one! Anyone have a solution?

I understand Peter, but I work with a lot of files, and I'm very visually on it.
Separate kind of files by their aspect is very important for me.
I don´t need that .doc or .docx have pages icon....I just need an any icon, not a blank icon.
Because numbers do the same to .xls or .xlsx files.
Imagine a Folder with 2500 files (.doc .docx .xls .xlsx .dot.....etctetc) all blank icon files......files that I need to identify quickly.
So, I understand your point of view, but i really need to put icons on .doc ; docx files.....and note one by one.
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[SOLVED] How to open default text editor from bash script?

as header states i would like my script to open the desktops default text editor. I use xfce.
I currently have it set to open medit, however i want to be able to use script on other desktops
Last edited by orphius (2013-07-12 07:24:34)

Trilby wrote:
EDITOR will often not be the default desktop environment editor - it is usually limited to being a systemwide (and usually console-ready) editor.
xdg-open, or a related tool, can give you the desktop's text editor.
Truth. VISUAL is typically used for the graphical text editor.
So, to use VISUAL if it exists, but otherwise default to medit, do:
editor="${VISUAL:-medit}"
$editor foo.txt
Last edited by jakobcreutzfeldt (2013-07-11 07:09:02)

How do you make pages default document reader

Hi
I have just started using pages and i cant seem to work out how to make it the default application to open up the many documents i have.
Every time i open a document it opens in textedit, i know that you can choose in properties with which program to open it with, but i am getting really fed up of doing this.
is there any way to make pages the default instead of textedit program.
Ta
Karl
p.s I used to use MS office but i cant be bothered to reinstall it and most of my docs are .doc (office format)

kb,
You can set .doc files to open in Pages, and its surprisingly easy: just go to the Finder, single-click on any .doc file, then type command-I (Get Info). Click on the Open With... menu and select Pages (or navigate to Pages if it's not in the menu). To make all .doc files open in Pages, click on the Change All button.
You can do the same thing with other types of files, like RTF or plain text.
-Dennis

How to make Pages default app for .doc files

How do you make Pages/Numbers the default app for all .doc/.xls files?

Welcome to Apple Discussions
Highlight a known Word document in the Finder, highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose Pages. If Pages is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the Pages application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with Pages. Repeat with Excel documents & Numbers.
Be aware that the icons for these documents will be plain white icons.

Make Pages default program to open my MS Word docs

Hey friends,
I'm new to Apple World and I'm trying to figure out how to make Pages the default program to open my old MS Word docs. Right now Text Edit opens it.
Thanks a million!

Hi Chris,
This is how I do it in OS 10.5 (Leopard). Should be fairly similar in other versions:
Find a .doc file using Finder (Open your hard drive and navigate to it through your folders)
Click to highlight the file
Go to File > Get Info or type Apple-I
The 4th section down gives you the option to choose an app to open this file with. Select pages.app
Click the Change all button to get all your .doc files to open in Pages by default.
That should all work as described; please write back if it doesn't!

Make Pages Default For Opening Word Documents

I currently use iWork but also use openOffice, whenever I open up a Word document by double clicking it openOffice opens... How can I make Pages the default application for handling these files?

Walt...THANK YOU...can't tell you how irritating it was for me to, by force of habit, double click on a *.doc file & then have Parallels start to open Windows XP so it could get to MS Word - I just did not want that to happen...what a pain. I tried to find a way to have Pages be the default program for *.doc files but couldn't until I read your entry. As a new Mac convert from years & years of Windows use, let me say it again...Thank You
tpg

Setting default text editor for sql+ in win2k

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and replace it with NoteTab which is a much more advanced text
editor over the stock m$ editor.
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I'm using WIN2k and it works for me:
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How to make Pages Default App

How do i make Pages my default app and not "textedit".
THANK YOU

smccray,
Welcome to Apple discussions.
You can set any file type to open in Pages, and it’s surprisingly easy: just go to the Finder, single-click on any a file, then type command-I (Get Info). Click on the Open With... menu and select Pages (or navigate to Pages if it’s not in the menu). To make all files of that type open in Pages, click on the Change All button. You can do that with .doc, RTF, .txt, and other types of files.
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Hi,
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if not possible then what is the best way to open a text file in predefined text editor?
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hi,
I do know how to open it with notepad:try
String cmd = "Notepad " + filename;
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catch(Exception e)
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}It is possible to open it with the standard texteditor, certainly by retrieving it from the windows registry. Perhaps there is a routine for it like for Internet Explorer but that I don't know.
greetz,
Stijn
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Make pages default program

Ok, I've installed iwork '08 and am wondering why, if i try and open a file from mail or a download I still have to go to 'open with' and select pages. It doesn't just default to pages. Also, when saving pages documents it doesn't give you an option to save as a different type of file (jpeg etc...) therefore I might have problems sending files to people in other formats.
Thanks,
Rod

rod,
The reason Word files don't automatically open in Pages is because you haven't told the system to open ALL Word files in Pages. By selecting Open With, you're telling it to open that one file with Pages. To change them all, you'll see a button below the Open With menu that says Change All. Click on that, and all Word files will open in Pages.
Your second issue is about how to save Pages files in other formats. You have to select File > Export -- not File > Save As. But your example is how to save a Pages file as a jpeg. You can't do that in Pages. You can export to Word, pdf, RTF, or text.
-Dennis

Default text editor for files with no extension

If I double-click on a file with a name like README, the Finder opens the file with TextEdit.app. I can easily change which editor is used if the file had an extension (e.g. if it was called README.txt or README.html), but without an extension, OS X had no way to set a preferred editor. If I open this from the terminal I can set the EDITOR environment variable, or use open -a appName, but my question is about the Finder. Thanks!

extremely annoying. when i first switched to OS X, i had to rewite a hundred or so perl scripts for my servers... because any text file or data file or whatever, that didn't have an extension after it, would no longer open in BBEdit, like it always did in 9.2
3 years later i'm still occasionally getting that annoying 'doh, what do i open this with' message. macs are getting dumber all the time.
i guess apple thinks windows got it right associating the extension with the app.
and half my 'change alls' don't stick either.

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