I upgraded to Office 2007 last week.

I download .txt files from several web sites on a regular basis and need
them to automatically open in Excel. After some fussing with the file
types, I had gotten this working with 2003. Nothing is making any difference
with 2007. File types lets me change the default program to Excel, but then
it does nothing when I try to open the file. And - it doesn't change the
application icon in explorer - it still shows notepad even though in the file
types window it shows excel.

If I right click on a .txt file and say "open with excel", it doesn't do
anything either.

I can open the exact same file by opening Excel first and then opening the
..txt file from inside Excel.

Help please! I can't go through a multi-step process every time I download
one of these files.

THANKS!