Change Association

[Otto Moehrbach]

I have Excel XP (2002). I just installed Excel 2007 without deleting the XP
version. Of course, the association for all .xls file went to Excel 2007.
I want to change that back to Excel XP.
I followed the directions in HELP under "Association" and that took me to
the dialog box that lists all the programs I have and asks me to pick the
program I want to associate .xls with. However, only Excel 2007 is listed
and not Excel XP. Why is not Excel XP listed and how do I change the
association back to Excel XP. Thanks for your time. Otto

 

[Gerry]

Otto

Whilst many Excel users post here I suggest you post to an Excel
newsgroup for an answer:
microsoft.public.excel.misc

As a matter of curiosity why do you want to change the file association.
Is your question really about file sharing between machines. I take it
you have the older version of Excel on a second machine. If I am
understanding your problem correctly you need to know the most practical
way to share files between the machines.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Otto Moehrbach]

Gerry
Thanks for responding to my query.
No, my problem is not related to file sharing between computers. It's more
mundane than that. I have a single home computer and I have Excel XP. I am
quite familiar with Excel XP and I do a lot of VBA stuff with it in helping
people that post to the various Excel newsgroups. That's my hobby.
But I see that more and more people are asking questions related to Excel
2007. If I'm to help them I have to become familiar with Excel 2007 myself.
I have a lot of work I'm doing for a number of people (all gratis) and it's
all in Excel XP, so I'm not willing to jump into 2007 with both feet, so to
speak. What I want to do is play with 2007 to gain familiarity with it
while still maintaining what I'm doing with XP, then gradually move into
2007.
So I installed Office 2007 and of course the file association moved to 2007.
All the above is why I want to change the .xls association back to XP.
You say to contact an Excel newsgroup. File association is a Windows task
and that's why I posted to this newsgroup.
Thanks again and I would appreciate it if you could help with this. Otto

 

[Gord Dibben]

Otto

I would de-register 2007 and re-register 2002

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

Start>Run "C:\yourpathto2007\excel.exe" /unregserver

See the space between exe and /regserver.

Then register 2002

Start>Run "C:\yourpathto2002\excel.exe" /regserver

This process should make Excel 2002 the default for opening files.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Otto Moehrbach]

Thanks Gord. I'll give that shot. Otto

Otto

I would de-register 2007 and re-register 2002

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

Start>Run "C:\yourpathto2007\excel.exe" /unregserver

See the space between exe and /regserver.

Then register 2002

Start>Run "C:\yourpathto2002\excel.exe" /regserver

This process should make Excel 2002 the default for opening files.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Otto Moehrbach]

Thanks Gord. That worked like a charm once I figured out that Office10 and
Office12 didn't have spaces in them Otto

 

[Gord Dibben]

Good to hear.

Gord

Thanks Gord. That worked like a charm once I figured out that Office10 and
Office12 didn't have spaces in them Otto