help with transferring files

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martin

I am sending files from my old computer to my new laptop.
My laptop is opening these files with Microsoft Works
Spreadsheet!... I installed Excel 2002 and I want to use
that. I do I get rid of the damned Works spreadsheet so
everything opens in Excel?

thanks in advance to anyone that can help me
 
You probably double-clicked the file and it opened in
Works. Try this instead. Open Excel first. Then, from
Excell, open the spreadsheet.
 
If you're really serious about getting rid of works (you may want to keep
Word????), you can:

windows start button
settings|control panel|add/remove programs
and wipe works off your laptop
(I haven't used works in a long time. Can you leave word (or reinstall it
later)?)

But if you want to keep Works on your pc, you could try reregistering excel.

This'll try to tell windows that you want excel to own .xls extensions.

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.
 
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