Defaulting to Office XP (2007)

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I have both Office XP and Office 2007 on my PC but prefer to work in XP by default. I tried to set the default association to the XP version of the programs by changing the file types association to the XP directory – but it just ignores it so if I double click I end up with Word 2007 or Excel 2007 or whatever. I’m reduced to opening up Word XP then doing a File Open.

Any ideas?

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One option is to Right Click on a file, and choose Open With. You should find both versions of the relevant program listed, and you can choose.

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Unfortunately the ‘Open With’ only gives the 2007 options. Even if I use Browse and navigate to the correct exe (in theXP directory) it still opens with 2007.

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You could add shortcuts to the Office XP apps to the Send To folder (C:Documents and SettingsSendTo).

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Hans

How do you get something into that folder?

I just tried to do this (because I find similar behaviour) and I get this message.

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That’s Windows Vista, isn’t it? I can’t help you with that, but it might well have to do something with UAC (User Access Control)

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You need to go to “C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo”. Anything else will just be a link for legacy programs to be able to use.

Joe

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Thank you. That worked.

I now both Words and both Excels in the Send to Menu. Somehow (can’t remember) I got both Access versions in the Open With menu, but I could not get that to work for Word and Excel.

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