2003: Changing the Default extension/file type for insertions?

[Guest]

I am using Word 2003 and am working on a huge project where I have to insert
a corresponding .txt file into each Word document I open. However, when I
click to insert a file, it goes to the proper drive and directory (or at
least the same d & d every time) but it always defaults to .doc as the file
type to display, which is understandable. I want to change this default to
be .txt (or any extension of my choice), if not for all Word jobs I do, at
least while I have my computer on. How?

 

[Guest]

You need to make that change in your normal.dot document. after you opened
normal.dot (make sure you open normal.dot and not document1 based on
normal.dot ) clikc on file\open and change the file type to *.txt then close
the dialogbox and click on save and close it. Next time you use open
dialogbox of word it will show *.txt as default.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Harvey. Following these steps succeeds in making the default format
that I am opening a .txt type of file but it doesn't set the default to .txt
format for the INSERT | FILE function, which is what I'm needing to do.