Excel 2000 file types have been changing.

[Naveen Mukkelli]

I've got both Excel 5.0 and Excel 2000 installed on my Windows 2000
workstation.
I've noticed that after opening a spread sheet that had been created using
Excel 5.0 the excel file types have been changing back to Excel 5.0. I'm
using Excel.exe /regeserver to make Excel 2000 default.

I have been using "ftype" command to check the file types.
Before running Excel.exe /regserver, "Excel.Sheet.8" was pointing to
"C:\Program Files\Office42\Excel.exe" which is Excel 5.0.
After running Excel.exe /regserver "Excel.Sheet.8" is pointing to
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" which is Excel 2000.

I've notice that When I've opened an Excel spread sheet that had been
created using Excel 5.0, files types have been changed and most of the Excel
file types are reverted back to "C:\Program Files\Office42\Excel.exe".

As I mentioned earlier, this is happening only once( first time).

Do you think I've missed any thing?

 

[Peter Robinson]

Is their any particular reasons why you require two versions of excel on your
computer? In my opinon you could remove Excel 5 and keep Excel 2000 as you
can always open files that were created in Excel 5 and you can also save the
files in an Excel 5 compatible format.

Regards

Peter