Great thanks for the idea.

It didn't initially work with your initiall suggestion of:
"C:\yourpathtoexcel2003\excel.exe" /regserver

So I researched the boards and it looked like you gave similar advice to use
"excel /regserver". I was worried because I wasn't sure which version it
would reregister, but it ended up reregistering 2003 and now all my files
default to opening in 2003.

Thank you!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Instead of reinstalling xl2003, try reregistering it:

Close excel
windows start button|run
"C:\yourpathtoexcel2003\excel.exe" /regserver

reregistering xl2003 should make it the last version installed.



jtoy wrote:

Hi Bob,
Is it possible to reverse the default version that opens up when an xls file
is clicked? I read the following "With Office 97, Office 2000, or Office XP,
if no version of the program where the document was created is running, the
document opens in the version of the program that you most recently
installed." from the following support article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828956/

I have MS Office 2003 installed and a trial version of MS Office 2007 and it
defaults to opening up xls files in 2007. I would prefer to default to 2003
instead. Is this possible?
thanks!

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

There are no problems running multiple versions (I have 97, 2000 and XP on
this machine), but you should install your primary version last, so that
defaults when an xls file is clicked.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"René" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm currently using Excel 2003, but alos want to install a previous
version
of Excel because of an add-in that doesn't work in Excel 2003.
Are there any known problems concerning running two different versions of
Excel on the same computer?

Greetings
René




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Dave Peterson