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Default Recognizing *.xls files

Does your document management program have the capability of converting from
a .xlsx format to a .xls format? When Excel saves the files, it's not only
with a different extension, the files are in different formats.

Tyro

"Nevsky" wrote in message
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I have a document management program that I use that will only save based
on
file types. In order for other people who have older versions of Office
to
be able to work with a file I save, I need to identify the old file
extension. (Yes, I know I can save to an xls file in Office 2007, but that
is
not the issues here.) The program gives me a choice of file extensions
such
as *.xlsx and *.docx and *.pdf.

Prior to installing Office 2007, it gave me the option of saving to *.doc
and *.xls. It does not do so anymore. I found out that if one also has
an
old version of office on the machine, the document management program will
recognize *.doc and *.xls extension.

There seems to be some sort of a registry or similar issue here. Anyone
know how to solve this?