I assume you did the excel /regserver bit as I advised in response to your
email. so
go into tools=Options, general tab and make sure ignore other applications
is unchecked.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


John Baker wrote in message
...
Kevin:

Unfortunatley it does appear to be different. I got to the point of
opening Excel when I
click on an xls, bt for some reason it wont find the file I want to open!

Is there any program in the Office suite I can run to reset this mess?

Regards

John

"Kevin Stecyk" wrote:

Hi John,

This is from Win2K help. It might be different for your system.

To associate a file extension with a file type

1. Open Folder Options in Control Panel.
2. Click the File Types tab.
3. Click New.
4. Type a new or existing file name extension, and then click Advanced.
5. In File type, click New to create a new file type that is associated
with
the file name extension. Or, click one of the existing file types.

Notes

To open a Control Panel item, click Start, point to Settings, click
Control
Panel, and then double-click the appropriate icon. Or, in Windows
Explorer,
click Tools, and then click Folder Options.

For information about how to make modifications to the file type, see
Related Topics.

To change the program that opens a file, on the File Types tab, click
Change.



Regards,
kevin




"John Baker" wrote in message
.. .
Tom

It looked good and I installed it!

UNfortunately, now when I click on an .xls file, it thinks I want to
use
OpenOffice! How
do I reset the relationship between .xls files and Excel. I only want
to
use open office
for a couple of key things,and would be happy to go through the menus
in
the application
for that.

Help Please

John baker

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

I haven't used it, so I can't say. Check out the link - there is a
lot
of
information there. It does have a scripting capability it appears,
but I
don't know how compatible it is with VBA.