Robert,
Windows>Preferences>General>Editors>File Associations
Add an extension type, if it does NOT exist, like "*.XLS"
Then pick an External Program: Microsoft Excel.
Mark it has the default. (Select & click the Default button)
Hope these short instructions help you out.
-Ken Killian-
(423) 510-3129
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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Rogerson
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:42 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Opening an Excel worksheet on the IFS...
Hi All, I'm using RDp 8.5.1.
I expand the IFS directory and get to a spreadsheet I want to open. The
icon displayed to the left of the name is the Excel icon.
I right click and Open With and the options are Text Editor, System
Editor, Default Editor and Other... I then select Other... and a window
pops up with all the file associations on my PC. (At least I think that's
what I see). I can then scroll down to Microsoft Excel Worksheet and
select it and the worksheet does correctly open in Excel.
I looked in preferences but I could not find how to either set a default
application for opening type .xls nor could I find a way to change the
context menu and add Excel to the Open With dialog.
Does anyone know how this can be done? As I said it does currently work
but I have to go through more steps than I wish.
Thanks,
Robert Rogerson
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