Opening Docs in Dual Boot Environment

[RickGreg]

I have a dual-boot ibook operating OS 9.2.2. Office 98 is loaded, as is
the trial version of Office for OSX (not sure which exact version).

All my Word, Excel and Powerpoint files exhibit the new OSX version of the
Office icons, and I cannot double-click to open the files. Instead, I need
to open the application and open the file from within.

How can I make the older version of Office apps the "defaults"??

Thanks.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I have a dual-boot ibook operating OS 9.2.2. Office 98 is loaded, as is
the trial version of Office for OSX (not sure which exact version).

All my Word, Excel and Powerpoint files exhibit the new OSX version of the
Office icons, and I cannot double-click to open the files. Instead, I need
to open the application and open the file from within.

How can I make the older version of Office apps the "defaults"??

If I can remember back 5 years, I think maybe you can do it in the Control
Panels/File Exchange. I think you ought to be able there to assign Word 98
as the app the open .doc files, Excel 98 .xls files, etc. I'm not 100% sure
if that will only work on files that actually have the extension or not.
(But it's a good idea to always include the extension.) When you boot into
OS X, you might need to "fix" this by selecting one Word file. right-click
(control-click) choose Get Info, in Get Info window choose Opens With,
choose (browse in necessary) to Microsoft Word 11.0 (2004), click "Change
All" button. Do the same for one Excel file, etc.

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