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Hi,

I ahve both Excel 200 and 2007 installed on my PC and whilst I'm learning
2007, I want Excel 2000 to be my default program when opening Excel .XLS
files. Is there a way to do this please?

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Default Change default to Excel 2000 when 2007 installed

Since 2007 has decided it wants to be the default, de-register 2007 and
re-register 2000

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

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

See the space between exe and /unregserver.

Then register 2000

StartRun "C:\yourpathto2000\excel.exe" /regserver

This process should make Excel 2000 the default for opening files.

You may not have to unregister 2007 first but I err on the side of
caution<g


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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:01:45 -0000, "Rob"
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Hi,

I ahve both Excel 200 and 2007 installed on my PC and whilst I'm learning
2007, I want Excel 2000 to be my default program when opening Excel .XLS
files. Is there a way to do this please?

Thanks, Rob


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Default Change default to Excel 2000 when 2007 installed

Thanks Gord, works as expected. Rob

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
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Since 2007 has decided it wants to be the default, de-register 2007 and
re-register 2000

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

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

See the space between exe and /unregserver.

Then register 2000

StartRun "C:\yourpathto2000\excel.exe" /regserver

This process should make Excel 2000 the default for opening files.

You may not have to unregister 2007 first but I err on the side of
caution<g


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:01:45 -0000, "Rob"
wrote:

Hi,

I ahve both Excel 200 and 2007 installed on my PC and whilst I'm learning
2007, I want Excel 2000 to be my default program when opening Excel .XLS
files. Is there a way to do this please?

Thanks, Rob




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