excel 2008 as default

[Mac_Allan]

Could someone please advise when after loading Office 2008 for Mac and NOT deleting Office 2004 for mac, how do you set the default when opening an .xls or .doc to excel 2004 or word 2004.

Currently, no matter what i do, when opening and .xls document, it opens with excel 2008.

For many reasons, including the lack of macro's and page break print issues, I want to revert excel 2004.

Thanks
Mac Allan

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Could someone please advise when after loading Office 2008 for Mac and NOT
deleting Office 2004 for mac, how do you set the default when opening an .xls
or .doc to excel 2004 or word 2004.

Currently, no matter what i do, when opening and .xls document, it opens with
excel 2008.

For many reasons, including the lack of macro's and page break print issues, I
want to revert excel 2004.

Thanks
Mac Allan

Select a document in the finder. Goto File-Get Info (Apple-I). In the Open
With drop down, navigate to the version in the Office 204 folder, select the
application and click change all.

 

[Mac_Allan]

Hi Bob;

Thanks for your reply.

I have tried your suggestion numerous times, re-started after making the change.

If I want to change one document, it will accept the change back to 2004 version.

If I select "change all", immediately after confirming the change, the application selected reverts back to the 2008 version and its as if I never selected the document for change.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated
Thanks
Mac Allan

 

[katie_c]

I'm seeing the same behavior, but found that if you open an .xls file into 2004, all other excel files you open after that point will default to 2004. If you have a file open in 2008, all .xls files will default to 2008.

 

[Mac_Allan]

I tried your suggestion and it makes no difference in my installation.

Excel 2008 seems to take control of all and any .xls files

Mac Allan

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

I tried your suggestion and it makes no difference in my installation.

Excel 2008 seems to take control of all and any .xls files

Mac Allan

Hi Mac,

I¹ve not been able to figure out a way to reliably cause 2004 or 2008 to be
the default. It seems almost random ­ but most of the time 2008 wins on my
computers.

I thought about putting 2008 into its own user so that I would have to use
it only when necessary, but haven¹t tried it yet.

-Jim

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[Phillip Jones]

has any tried the following. On a 04 document right-click (or control
lick if one button mouse) and hold on document. next wait until menu
comes up click on choice open with .... then choose either excel 04 or
o8 depending up document. will open that document with what ever you choose.


Also try the following on OSX.3.9 click on a bunch of excel 04
documents and choose get info.

application to open choose excel 04.

click on button below choose as default.

on OSX.4.11 and for Excel 04/08 do the following

you have to do 04 documents and o8 documents separately.

click on a bunch of 04 or 08 documents (but not both). now control click
of right click on one of the highlighted documents. menu come up choose
get info on groups or group info.

now repeat the steps from choose application to open .

You'll have to repeat for each type file.

Quoting from "(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]>,
I tried your suggestion and it makes no difference in my installation.

Excel 2008 seems to take control of all and any .xls files

Mac Allan


Hi Mac,

I’ve not been able to figure out a way to reliably cause 2004 or 2008to
be the default. It seems almost random – but most of the time 2008 wins
on my computers.

I thought about putting 2008 into its own user so that I would have to
use it only when necessary, but haven’t tried it yet.

-Jim

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[Mac_Allan]

Hi Phillip;

I tried your suggestion and selected a number of like files and re-set the defaults.

I then opened them from finder and they opened with excel 2004 as re-set.

The only problem is when I made changes to them in excel 2004 and then saved them again, when I then opened the file from finder a second time, the file opened with excel 2008.

Any ideas
Thanks
Mac Allan

 

[Phillip Jones]

Well at least we tried. Sorry it wasn't a help.

Hi Phillip;

I tried your suggestion and selected a number of like files and re-set
the defaults.

I then opened them from finder and they opened with excel 2004 as re-set.

The only problem is when I made changes to them in excel 2004 and then
saved them again, when I then opened the file from finder a second time,
the file opened with excel 2008.

Any ideas
Thanks
Mac Allan

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[CyberTaz]

My understanding is that the file will open in whichever of the versions was
*last* installed - which will typically be the later version. I haven't
tested this but it seems to hold water AFAIK there is no [easy] way to
modify this behavior [which is actually OS X at work, not Office].

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Phillip Jones]

Although double clicking no longer works to open specific application in
this instance you can do something from finder that almost as fast.

highlight desired document.

Either right click and choose open with...
or go to Finder menu and choose File > open with...

and choose from the pop up list.

If you have a lot of applications that could open the same type file,
make take a few seconds to build the list.

My understanding is that the file will open in whichever of the versions was
*last* installed - which will typically be the later version. I haven't
tested this but it seems to hold water AFAIK there is no [easy] way to
modify this behavior [which is actually OS X at work, not Office].

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi Phillip;

I tried your suggestion and selected a number of like files and re-set the
defaults.

I then opened them from finder and they opened with excel 2004 as re-set.

The only problem is when I made changes to them in excel 2004 and then saved
them again, when I then opened the file from finder a second time, the file
opened with excel 2008.

Any ideas
Thanks
Mac Allan

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