Marios, Find an Excel file in Explorer, Right click on the file and choose properties.
Under the general tab you will find an option to choose which program is used to open that file type. Click on "change", check that the default is Excel and click on OK. If Excel isn't the default at this stage, then browse to find Excel and select it. Also check the "always use this program to open files of this type" and click on OK to get out of this dialog. Repeat this exercise for Doc files and PPT files. Having said all that, I run paid for copies of MSOffice 2003 and TextMaker as well as OpenOffice. Of the three MSOffice is by far the worst user experience and I only run it because I collaborate on complex documents written in Word that need to be 100% compatable. Unless you have a specific requirement I think it well worth while keeping OpenOffice on your PC as well as MSOffice 2003. Graham On 17/10/06, Marios Patrinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I'm running Windows XP Home (fully patched and updated). I used to use Open Office 2.0.0 and upgraded to 2.0.4. I then purchased MS Office 2003 and installed this and then removed 2.0.4 using the uninstall. Since then, my PC does not recognize .xls format files, and I have to force it to use MS Word to open .doc files, even ones it has created itself. Windows still thinks these are soffice .doc files. What is the fix? Regards, Marios Patrinos 07865 322 429 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
