I have vista installed on my computer, i installed microsoft 2003, the
computer came with 2007 trial vs, everything keeps defaulting to 2007 when i
open old files, i don't want 2007 to open up. I spend hours fighting any easy
suggestions.

Register 2003 version as the default.

If 2007 decides it wants to be the default, de-register 2007 and re-register
2003

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

StartRun "C:\yourpathto2007\excel.exe" /unregserver

See the space between exe and /unregserver.

Then register 2003

StartRun "C:\yourpathto2003\excel.exe" /regserver

This process should make Excel 2003 the default for opening files.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 07:22:00 -0700, Bruce
wrote:

I have vista installed on my computer, i installed microsoft 2003, the
computer came with 2007 trial vs, everything keeps defaulting to 2007 when i
open old files, i don't want 2007 to open up. I spend hours fighting any easy
suggestions.

Try the following procedure. Open Windows Explorer (either Computer in Vista
or MyComputer in XP or earlier); find any file with the extension you want
to set and right-click it; then select

Open With / Choose Default Program

from the popup menu that appeared; select the program you want to use to
open the file, then put a check mark in the box labeled "Always use the
selected program to open this kind of file" and click OK

Rick


"Bruce" wrote in message
...
I have vista installed on my computer, i installed microsoft 2003, the
computer came with 2007 trial vs, everything keeps defaulting to 2007 when
i
open old files, i don't want 2007 to open up. I spend hours fighting any
easy
suggestions.