Make Office XP (2002) default over Office 2007 trial

[Tesdall]

I have Windows XP Sp2 machines with office XP on them. I want to
install office 2007 trial on these machines so that they can take a
class. Both can be installed at the same time, however, it seems that
when i try to open attachments in outlook (2002) excel 2007 opens. How
do i make it so excel 2002 opens? I have changed a few strings in the
registry to no avail.

If i can add any more information please let me know.

 

[Tesdall]

I have Windows XP Sp2 machines with office XP on them. I want to
install office 2007 trial on these machines so that they can take a
class. Both can be installed at the same time, however, it seems that
when i try to open attachments in outlook (2002) excel 2007 opens. How
do i make it so excel 2002 opens? I have changed a few strings in the
registry to no avail.

If i can add any more information please let me know.

Ping

 

[Beth Melton]

You don't. If you double-click a file to open it outside of the application
will open with the version of Excel you started last. Each time you start
the app it takes "possession" of the file extensions.

Now, what you could do is create Shortcuts to both Excel.exe files and add
them to your Send To menu (appears when you right-click a file) then you can
selectively choose which version you want to use.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

I have Windows XP Sp2 machines with office XP on them. I want to
install office 2007 trial on these machines so that they can take a
class. Both can be installed at the same time, however, it seems that
when i try to open attachments in outlook (2002) excel 2007 opens. How
do i make it so excel 2002 opens? I have changed a few strings in the
registry to no avail.

If i can add any more information please let me know.

Ping

 

[Tesdall]

You don't. If you double-click a file to open it outside of the application
will open with the version of Excel you started last. Each time you start
the app it takes "possession" of the file extensions.

Now, what you could do is create Shortcuts to both Excel.exe files and add
them to your Send To menu (appears when you right-click a file) then you can
selectively choose which version you want to use.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ:http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine:http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site:http://mvps.org/





Ping

The users are in a class and are "playing" with office 2007 to learn
it. They use office 2003 for "work". When they try to open an
attachment in Outlook 2003 excel/word 2007 launch. I can't get 2003 to
load, even after i changed a few reg keys.

 

[Beth Melton]

You don't. If you double-click a file to open it outside of the
application
will open with the version of Excel you started last. Each time you start
the app it takes "possession" of the file extensions.

Now, what you could do is create Shortcuts to both Excel.exe files and add
them to your Send To menu (appears when you right-click a file) then you
can
selectively choose which version you want to use.

The users are in a class and are "playing" with office 2007 to learn
it. They use office 2003 for "work". When they try to open an
attachment in Outlook 2003 excel/word 2007 launch. I can't get 2003 to
load, even after i changed a few reg keys.

This is a one of the drawbacks to using a side-by-side installations of
Office and there isn't a workaround, reg hack, nothing that will change the
behavior. If you want to keep the versions from comingling on the same
computer then you need to use Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

That way for training they can use a virtual computer and their "real"
computer for work without encountering version conflicts.

--
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[Bob I]

The users are in a class and are "playing" with office 2007 to learn
it. They use office 2003 for "work". When they try to open an
attachment in Outlook 2003 excel/word 2007 launch. I can't get 2003 to
load, even after i changed a few reg keys.

This is a one of the drawbacks to using a side-by-side installations of
Office and there isn't a workaround, reg hack, nothing that will change the
behavior. If you want to keep the versions from comingling on the same
computer then you need to use Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

That way for training they can use a virtual computer and their "real"
computer for work without encountering version conflicts.

But I suspect that they won't want to buy another Windows license for
each PC just so the students can play with Office 2007 on virtual PC.

 

[mplmusic]

How do you set the default back to Excel 2002 -permanently-? When my pc
crashed, I had to reload all my programs. Now, the trial version of the
new Excel program has become the default when I double-click on an excel
spreadsheet. I want to go back to Excel 2002 as the default. How do I
do this?