How to set Word, Excel, Powerpoint as default

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Stan Hilliard

I installed Open Office and let it set itself as the program for
starting .doc, .xls, etc.

How can I set the default programs back to the MS Office programs?

Stan Hilliard
 
You can do it through Windows Explorer: go to Tools > Folder options. Select
the File Types tab. This specifies the applications associated with
particular file extensions. This is sufficient for Windows to know how to
open a file, but it gets a bit technical if you also want all the
right-click options to work (like batch printing a set of documents).

The more thorough alternative is to re-register the application, which you
do by running it using Start > Run, with the re-register command line
switch --

winword.exe /r
excel.exe /o

Don't know what the switches are for the others. Do a Google for: PowerPoint
+"command line" +"re-register"
 
You can do it through Windows Explorer: go to Tools > Folder options. Select
the File Types tab. This specifies the applications associated with
particular file extensions. This is sufficient for Windows to know how to
open a file, but it gets a bit technical if you also want all the
right-click options to work (like batch printing a set of documents).

The more thorough alternative is to re-register the application, which you
do by running it using Start > Run, with the re-register command line
switch --

winword.exe /r
excel.exe /o
Click to expand...

I ran the re-register switches and that changed the default
application back to the MS programs.

But the icons for the files are still the Open Office Icons.
 
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