TITLE: Customise your Send To menu CONTACT: admin@firstwebbuilder.co.ukCOPYRIGHT: ©2002 by Dianne Reuby. All rights reserved
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Customise your Send To menu by Dianne Reuby
Question : How can I open my file in a different program - easily?
Answer : Customise your "Send To" menu
Windows "associates" files with programs according to file extension and software installed on computer. So "myfile.doc" will be associated with your default word processor, "any.gif" will be associated with your default picture viewer or editor.
Great - just one click on filename, and it loads program. What a time saver!
But what if you don't want file to load in its' associated program?
For example: my PC has quite a few .html files (web pages) stored on it. Some I've saved when surfing, some I've created. Windows associates these with my browser - after all, where else would you want to view a web page?
Quite often, in my web page editor! Or if I just want to make a small change to one of my pages, in my text editor. So, load program, choose File, then Open, search for my directory and file, and ... what was I going to do? Can't quite remember, now!
You don't have to go this route. In Windows 98, if you right-click on a file, you get a pop-up menu. One of choices is "Send To". You can easily add items to this menu, so that you can load in a file in program of your choice rather than default program.