disabling excel 2007

[Guest]

I need to have both Excel 2003 and 2007 because some programs I use for my
business aren't fully compatible with 2007. Is there a way to temporarilly
disable 2007 so that when a program attempts to download a file to Excel, it
will open 2003 NOT try to open 2007

 

[Roger Govier]

Hi Lynn

In Windows Explorer, got to Tools>Folder Options>File Types> scroll down
to you see XLS Files
Click on Advanced>Open>
edit the entry to something like the following (this is the setting for
my machine)
"C:\Program Files\OfficeXP\Office11\EXCEL.EXE" /e %1

for my XLSX files it is
"C:\Program Files\OfficeXP\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e %1

When you installed 2007, it may have changed the setting for XLS files
to also look at Office 12 (XL2007)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply. I cannot, however, find "Folder Options" under the
Tools Menu. (I am using IE 7). Could it be somewhere else?

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

It's not Internet Explorer but Windows explorer, press windows button + e or
open any windows folder