Hi, good morning! I'm running Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac so that I can access my company's online workplace via Internet Explorer. I have Office for Mac installed. I haven't been able to find a way to set the office files on the Windows VM to open in the correct program, e.g. Word, excel. They automatically open using the Mac programs Pages and Numbers and I can't figure out how to change that! I'm sure it's a simple fix and I'm just being a moron. This is the only glitch I've had- otherwise I'm very happy with the software. Thanks! Jo
Thanks... yes I should have made clear, I did try that. I wasn't able to navigate to the Mac program files folder from the Windows control panel.
> W7 control panel-> Default Programs > I wasn't able to navigate to the Mac program files folder from the Windows control panel. You can set the default applications that should open with a specific file from a Parallels control panel. Then, when you double-click on a file in Windows, it will cause the default Mac application to open and load that file. This is how to do it: Do one of the following: 1 Option-click (Alt-click) the Parallels icon  in the menu bar and choose Configure. 2 When the Parallels Desktop menu bar is visible at the top of the screen, choose Virtual Machine > Configure. 2 Click Options and click Applications. 3 Select Share Mac applications with Windows. You can open a file in a Mac OS X application from Windows Explorer, from the Open dialog in most Windows programs, or from Windows Desktop if Windows is set to appear in a separate Window or at full screen (p. 51). You may want to do this if you don't have a Windows program that can open the file. • In Windows,right-click(orControl-click)afileanddooneofthefollowing: • Choose Open on Mac from the shortcut menu. The file opens in the default Mac OS X application for that file type. • Choose Open With from the shortcut menu, and then choose an application. Note: You can only perform these actions with files stored in shared folders (p. 60). (Taken from the documentation: http://download.parallels.com/deskt...tion/en_US/Parallels Desktop User's Guide.pdf) Hope this helps!
