Hopefully a Mac user can add to this answer:
This has nothing to do with AbiWord. Your Mac is treating all .doc
files as "AbiWord" documents - probably because AbiWord was the most
recently installed program that CAN handle .doc files.
Somewhere there is a place to change your default program for .doc
files. Can you open a "properties" dialog for any .doc file? Maybe
start looking there for an "open with..." menu item.
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:46 -0400, Molly Layton wrote:
> I am a writer and a new user of Abiword, which I downloaded in order
> to open old Word Perfect .wpd files that otherwise my iMac G5 can't
> open.
> However, now whenever someone sends me a file in .doc format or other
> format, Abiword -- without my asking! -- opens up the document. I
> can't get around it. I have checked with the senders, and they did
> not send the attachment in Abiword. So how can I get Abiword to butt
> out? Abiword's rendition of the document is more ragged than I like
> -- strange spacings, etc. It is a blessing when I cannot otherwise
> open a document, but otherwise.....
> If anyone can help me, I offer many thanks. If you can keep it
> simple, I offer even more thanks -- I am a non-technie, and an old
> lady to boot.
> Sincerely, Molly Layton
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