[Marsh]

What ever you decide, you will love or hate your choice,
I remember using WordPerfect 5, and then 6 and Lotus 1-2-3
and then I was forced to switch to Office 97. I bitched and moaned for
months but eventually got used to not having my Reveal Codes (I did a lot of
technical writing).
After 11 years of Word 97, 2002,2003, Version 2007 was thrust upon me. Once
again, I bitched and moaned for months but eventually got used to not having
my Toolbars and Menus. I have actually gotten to like the Ribbon. The XML
compatiblity built in will be valuable, unless you just type letters and
memos.

"PT" wrote:

I've always used the Office 2003 programs. But recently, I decided to
switch Outlook to the 2007 version. In the process. Office 2007 also
installed the 2007 versions of Excel, Word, etc.

So now I have both Excel 2003, and Excel 2007 on my Windows 7 home
premium computer.

I dont care at all for the ribbon and other features of Word or Excel
2007. But now my opening an old Word or Excel file brings up 2007
Word or Excel

I know theres a setting to create an association between .XLS, .DOC
etc.. and a particular program, in this case Excel 2003. I tried to
make the change using Ctrl Panel. But the Office 12 (2007) programs
seem €œlocked€� and wont change.

Is there any way to make the change so the default programs ore Office
11 (2003)?
.