In the Excel 2003 File Open dialog, with the Compatibility Tool installed,
the first file spec listed for Excel is "*.XL*". This includes all the new
extensions, e.g. XLSX, XLSM, etc.

Jim
"DMc2004" wrote in message
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| When you have installed the Office 2007 Compatibility Tool into Office
2003,
| my understanding is both in the Open and Save Dialogs should be the Office
| 2007 file formats (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074), yet on my
system
| only in Word does this happen, not in Excel and PowerPoint where they only
| appear in the Save Dialog.
|
| Any ideas.
|
| Regards