OK! This definitely is better than copying and pasting each time. Unfortunately I have not yet had the pleasure of finding an "always use this to open this type of file" instruction, and not sure it would work even if I did.Villeroy wrote:If you always see .txt etc everything is fine with that. By default Windows hides away extensions confusingly. In order to open all .txt files with Notepad or some better text editor, right-click any such file, choose "Open With...", select the preferred program and check "always use this program" (or similar). Writer should not be the preferred application for plain text files unless you want to add some juice to the text and save it as a full featured office document.
Danke Villeroy! I consider this part of my issue solved.
Now I just have to remember to 'open with...' each time rather than simply double clicking.