Two problems with my iMac24

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andrefrancis

... yes it's really me!
I have just bought an iMac24 and of course I love it ... but ... there are a couple of things that I have problems with. I wonder if anyone can help.

1. I do not have a Trash (wastebasket) icon on my desktop ... and thus cannot inspect or undelete anything I have trashed! How can I get access to it?

2. When I first got my machine, I did an import of everything from my old g4 box, which had the previous OfficeX software (10.1) installed. Unfortunately, the iMac had a test drive copy of a more recent Office2004 (11.2) suite, which I promptly trashed, since the previous version is perfectly adequate and I had no wish to spend extra money on something I didn't need. However, the problem is that when I double click a doc saved using Word (and Excel) 10.1, the system reports a problem, since the default setting for these two apps is 11.2. Once I call up the old appn and then use File/Open, I can see my previous doc and then resave it. However I cannot seem to make the 'Change All' button work the way I want. When I press it, it makes all the current Word docs a slave of 11.2 ... and I am back where I started. What I need is a way of making 10.1 the default appn rather than 11.2 ... which I no longer have and do not want. Can anybody help?

Thank you ... in anticipation

Andre
 
1. The trash is in the Dock, not on the desktop. If you normally have the dock hidden, then you won't have the trash visible until you mouse across the Dock. You can always toggle the dock by pressing option-Apple-D

2. The Change All button in the Get Info window should work. Make sure you select the correct app that you want to use.

Someone else may chime in with a better answer for setting file/app associations.
 
DeltaMac said:
1. The trash is in the Dock, not on the desktop. If you normally have the dock hidden, then you won't have the trash visible until you mouse across the Dock. You can always toggle the dock by pressing option-Apple-D

2. The Change All button in the Get Info window should work. Make sure you select the correct app that you want to use.

Someone else may chime in with a better answer for setting file/app associations.
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1. Thanks .... I was being incredibly stupid here ... I found it quite quickly.

2. The problem is ... it doesn't work. It doesn't look at which version I am selecting, it simply uses the application per se (and thus uses the version that is marked as default ie 11.2). I need to be able to change the default version from 11.2 (which I no longer have on my machine) to 10.1 which I do have ... and wish to use.
Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in anticipation.

Andre
 
any other suggestions? as going through each and every word/excel document is going to be quite tedious. Thanks. It removed it successfully, but it still lists 11.2 as the default option for some reason.
 
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