Right click on the file (ex. myexcel.1) > choose properties > on properties
box General tab > the file name appears on the top box. Type of File: 1 File
> Opens with: (Adobe Icon) Adobe Reader > click the Change button > Click
Excel from the list of Programs. Then the icon will change.
Hope it works.
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"Paul Fenton" wrote:
> I have a client running an all XP Pro network. For their business,
> they create price sheets in Excel, but give them weird file names,
> such as "BasePrice2005.1", "RetailPrice2005.10", etc. None of the
> files have the .xls extension, just some number like 1, 2, 3, etc. I
> don't know how they do it, but somehow it works. If you click on any
> of these files in Explorer, it opens with Excel.
>
> They've been operating this way for years.
>
> This morning, the boss attempted to open an email attachment with a
> ..pdf extenstion and Windows asked what program to use with a list
> which included Adobe Reader. Shortly after that, he noticed that in
> Explorer all those price sheet files had the Adobe icon next to it and
> they wouldn't open with Excel as they had in the past. He had to
> specify what program to use.
>
> None of the other workstations are having the problem I was in the
> server this morning (pcAnywhere) and was able to open all of them with
> excel. We're talking files with NO .xls extension, just some number.
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on and how to fix it? Other than
> appending an xls extension to about 60 files?
>
>
> Paul Fenton
>
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