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Office 2003 and 2007 on same machine
Hi. I'm posting to a Word an an Excel group, because I suspect and
hope the answer is the same but fear it might not be. At work yesterday I installed Office 2007 (except Outlook) on the same computer where I had office 2003. I'm still able to open and run Excel 2003 and Word 2003, but when I double-click on an .RTF or .DOC or .XLS file the 2007 program opens. I want to retain the 2003 file associations for all file types that Office 2003 can cope with. I thought I could do this with "Open With..." and selecting the 2003 programs through browsing, but unfortunately Windows ignores that selection. My question: how can I set things up so that Office 2007 opens .docx and .xlsx files when I double-click them, but Office 2003 opens .doc and .rtf and .xls files when I double-click them? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top posting such a bad thing? |
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"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t... Hi. I'm posting to a Word an an Excel group, because I suspect and hope the answer is the same but fear it might not be. At work yesterday I installed Office 2007 (except Outlook) on the same computer where I had office 2003. I'm still able to open and run Excel 2003 and Word 2003, but when I double-click on an .RTF or .DOC or .XLS file the 2007 program opens. I want to retain the 2003 file associations for all file types that Office 2003 can cope with. I thought I could do this with "Open With..." and selecting the 2003 programs through browsing, but unfortunately Windows ignores that selection. My question: how can I set things up so that Office 2007 opens .docx and .xlsx files when I double-click them, but Office 2003 opens .doc and .rtf and .xls files when I double-click them? I don't think you can...as 2007 deals with 2003 and prior documents anyway, why would you want to? |
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If you right click on an XLS file and select Properties, you can change the
Open association. Repeat for other file types as needed. Bob Flanagan Macro Systems 144 Dewberry Drive Hockessin, Delaware, U.S. 19707 Phone: 302-234-9857, cell 302-584-1771 http://www.add-ins.com Productivity add-ins and downloadable books on VB macros for Excel "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Hi. I'm posting to a Word an an Excel group, because I suspect and hope the answer is the same but fear it might not be. At work yesterday I installed Office 2007 (except Outlook) on the same computer where I had office 2003. I'm still able to open and run Excel 2003 and Word 2003, but when I double-click on an .RTF or .DOC or .XLS file the 2007 program opens. I want to retain the 2003 file associations for all file types that Office 2003 can cope with. I thought I could do this with "Open With..." and selecting the 2003 programs through browsing, but unfortunately Windows ignores that selection. My question: how can I set things up so that Office 2007 opens .docx and .xlsx files when I double-click them, but Office 2003 opens .doc and .rtf and .xls files when I double-click them? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top posting such a bad thing? |
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If you use Start -Word 2007 to open a file, then later you use Start-Word
2003 there will a long and annoying pause while Office does some reinstalling stuff. This is not a problem with the two versions of Excel best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme remove caps from email "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Hi. I'm posting to a Word an an Excel group, because I suspect and hope the answer is the same but fear it might not be. At work yesterday I installed Office 2007 (except Outlook) on the same computer where I had office 2003. I'm still able to open and run Excel 2003 and Word 2003, but when I double-click on an .RTF or .DOC or .XLS file the 2007 program opens. I want to retain the 2003 file associations for all file types that Office 2003 can cope with. I thought I could do this with "Open With..." and selecting the 2003 programs through browsing, but unfortunately Windows ignores that selection. My question: how can I set things up so that Office 2007 opens .docx and .xlsx files when I double-click them, but Office 2003 opens .doc and .rtf and .xls files when I double-click them? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top posting such a bad thing? |
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The two Word versions share some registry entries, including file
association, so you need to stop Word 2007 from grabbing the entries when it starts. See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stan Brown wrote: Hi. I'm posting to a Word an an Excel group, because I suspect and hope the answer is the same but fear it might not be. At work yesterday I installed Office 2007 (except Outlook) on the same computer where I had office 2003. I'm still able to open and run Excel 2003 and Word 2003, but when I double-click on an .RTF or .DOC or .XLS file the 2007 program opens. I want to retain the 2003 file associations for all file types that Office 2003 can cope with. I thought I could do this with "Open With..." and selecting the 2003 programs through browsing, but unfortunately Windows ignores that selection. My question: how can I set things up so that Office 2007 opens .docx and .xlsx files when I double-click them, but Office 2003 opens .doc and .rtf and .xls files when I double-click them? |
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Office 2003 and 2007 on same machine
You might like to read the thread started by John dated 22/02/2008 @ 01:31
(UK GMT date + Time) titled 'Using both Word 2003 and Word 2007 in Open With ....' which gives you several solutions to the problem. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Hi. I'm posting to a Word an an Excel group, because I suspect and hope the answer is the same but fear it might not be. At work yesterday I installed Office 2007 (except Outlook) on the same computer where I had office 2003. I'm still able to open and run Excel 2003 and Word 2003, but when I double-click on an .RTF or .DOC or .XLS file the 2007 program opens. I want to retain the 2003 file associations for all file types that Office 2003 can cope with. I thought I could do this with "Open With..." and selecting the 2003 programs through browsing, but unfortunately Windows ignores that selection. My question: how can I set things up so that Office 2007 opens .docx and .xlsx files when I double-click them, but Office 2003 opens .doc and .rtf and .xls files when I double-click them? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top posting such a bad thing? |
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Office 2003 and 2007 on same machine
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:42:11 -0500 from Bob Flanagan
: If you right click on an XLS file and select Properties, you can change the Open association. Repeat for other file types as needed. Thanks for replying, Bob, but this does not work. I go through exactly the steps I would for a regular program, everything appears fine, but when I click the last OK the association is still for the Office 2007 version. There's something about MS-Office programs that bypasses the usual mechanism for file associations. You can see it also if you right- click one of the Start menu entries and select Properties: instead of showing a file path in the Target box it just says Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 or similar. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:47:05 -0400 from Bernard Liengme
: If you use Start -Word 2007 to open a file, then later you use Start-Word 2003 there will a long and annoying pause while Office does some reinstalling stuff. This is not a problem with the two versions of Excel Thanks for replying, Bernard, but I'm not sure how that relates to my problem. I have Word 2003 and 2007 plus Excel 2003 and 2007 on my machine. When I double-click an .rtf or .doc or .xls file I want it to open in the 2003 version. Thanks! -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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I believe that the only reliable solution is to add the appropriate exe to
the Send To menu. Then you can right-click a file and choose Send To and select the appropriate Word or Excel that you want to open. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:47:05 -0400 from Bernard Liengme : If you use Start -Word 2007 to open a file, then later you use Start-Word 2003 there will a long and annoying pause while Office does some reinstalling stuff. This is not a problem with the two versions of Excel Thanks for replying, Bernard, but I'm not sure how that relates to my problem. I have Word 2003 and 2007 plus Excel 2003 and 2007 on my machine. When I double-click an .rtf or .doc or .xls file I want it to open in the 2003 version. Thanks! -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Thanks to Graham and Terry for your responses. I haven't followed up
because the system in question is at work, and I've been off all week with the flu. As soon as I can get in and try the suggestions I'll post a response. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Completely off-topic:
Take care of yourself! It seems that everyone at work has been sick and it hit me last weekend. I was out today because I didn't feel like sharing my germs for another day. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Thanks to Graham and Terry for your responses. I haven't followed up because the system in question is at work, and I've been off all week with the flu. As soon as I can get in and try the suggestions I'll post a response. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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