hyperlinks opening program

[Guest]

HI

I have I hyperlink in a Excel document pointing to a RTF document which I
want to open wind Wordpad. I have assiociated the RTF file extension to
WordPad. When I double click on a RTF document in the explorer, Wordpad is
indeed used to open the document.

However, when I click on the hyperlink, MsWord is used to open the
document.....
Does anybody know how to force the program that is used to open the
hyperlink ? Or is there somewhere a set of parameters (probably) in the
register that can be changed ?



Thanks for your answers, Daan

 

[Drew Tognola]

Daan64,

You need to right-click the file, select 'Open With' > Choose Program >
check the 'always use the selected program to open this kind of file' box >
highlight WordPad, select OK.
Note:
In the future if you want to open a Rich Text File (.rtf) in Word you will
need to do the same steps and reassociate with Word.

Drew

HI

I have I hyperlink in a Excel document pointing to a RTF document which I
want to open wind Wordpad. I have assiociated the RTF file extension to
WordPad. When I double click on a RTF document in the explorer, Wordpad is
indeed used to open the document.

However, when I click on the hyperlink, MsWord is used to open the
document.....
Does anybody know how to force the program that is used to open the
hyperlink ? Or is there somewhere a set of parameters (probably) in the
register that can be changed ?



Thanks for your answers, Daan

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Daan,

Click Start, Run and type CMD
Type this command and press Enter

ASSOC .RTF=Wordpad.Document.1

Close and re-open the Excel document.