How to open a .csv file in Excel Opening a .csv file is as easy as opening a .txt file, and usually, you won’t have to clean up the data before doing so because the save task inserts the delimiter.

Notepad always opened .txt files, but I changed to MSWorks after Notepad stopped working. I fixed Notepad, and want to change back to it (to open .txt files). The problem with Notepad was that the ...

The Windows operating system uses the file extension to understand how to open a file. For example, when you double-click to open a TXT file, Notepad probably opens it.

Need to use third-party programs to open files on your PC? Here's how to change file associations in Windows 10 and choose which apps open which file types.

A reader would like to know how to change the default program his computer uses to open .jpg files when he double-clicks on a photo file. Most computers will use their operating system’s default ...

Yep, just as you would expect. This works the same way in Excel and PowerPoint as well. Another feature change that seems obvious in retrospect is that Word can now open *.txt files, which many of ...