2003 & 2007

[QB]

I have both office 2003 and 2007 installed on my pc.

When I right-click on a database extension (mdb) I have the choice to use
2003 or 2007.

Yet when I do the same with an Excel or Word doc, I only have 2007? Even if
I select Open with - Choose Programs and select the excel.exe from office 11,
it still opens it using 2007 (office 12)? The only way I can use 2003 is to
launch the exe myself and file-open...

How can I set it up to give me the choice for all office docs to use either
2003 or 2007?

Thank you,

QB

 

[db]

perhaps, you might try configuring
the "file types" for the word extensions.

you can re set

..docx to word 07 &
..doc to word 03.

the same applies to excel files.

here are the instructions:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/307859


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[QB]

No good! Already tried. I got and select the exe from office11 and save,
and it still opens with office12.

Any other ideas? Where is this info kept in the registry since the dialog
does not work for this change? Will this change make it appear in the
right-click context menu?

QB

 

[db]

for the registry method you
can click on start>run>regedit

then press f3 key and enter
..html or .docx

the criteria above should take
you to the registry branch that
lists "all" the file extensions in
alphabetical order.

you can try to modify the .doc
extenstion and ensure that it
is set to office 03 "or"

you can delete the entire key
then exit the registry and see
if clicking on a doc document
still opens a program.

if not, then you can re assign
the .doc extension the normal
way be creating via the explorer>
file options>file types

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you may want to jot down the
data of the key you will delete.

because sometimes simply deleteing
the key and recreating it will solve
the problem.

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[Rojo Habe]

Some background information:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928091/en-us

The bit that might apply is the fact that any updates to either version will
repair that version and possibly screw up the associations. I suddenly
started having the problems you describe with Office 2000/2007 but I
couldn't be bothered to investigate and just decided to get rid of Office
2000. It now looks likely that I've had to do a Detect and Repair at some
stage in Office 2000 and that might have screwed things up.

Try repairing both versions, starting with 2003. If that doesn't work you
could try uninstalling the lot and reinstalling in the correct order.