Solved Office 2003

[wetdogleader]

I have just changed to Win 7 Premium x64 and have installed my old Office 2003. Although Office 2003 all works it does not associate with the files e.g .xls files. If I double click on the .xls file instead of it taking me into Excel it asks me what I want to open the file with. If I click on 'Select program from list of installed programs' Excel is not one of those listed. This may have been dealt with before but I cannot find it. All that I can find is how to associate the file....but I can't associate it if the program is not there. How can I get Excel in the list of 'Open withs'.

 

[Bill2]

Follow my posts here for Word.

http://www.sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/112700-ms-word-not-default-file-associations-list.html

If it works, lemme know, then we can do the same for the other missing associations.

 

[wetdogleader]

Thanks for the prompt reply. I'm afraid I'm not all clued up with 7 as I have been using XP for years.
I followed the instructions for winword /r but it comes up with 'Installation Error File not Found' looking for SKU11.CAB and then various other .CAB files after that. However coming out of that I modified the .doc in the registry and I have association between the .doc files and Word.......problem is I am not sure that I didn't have that previously. Should I try again with the .xls files and what do I need to type for them.

 

[Bill2]

Yes, try for xls. navigate to HKCR\.xls, then in the right pane set "Default" to Excel.Sheet.8

 

[wetdogleader]

Brilliant.....You're an absolute star! Just one more please for the Access .mdb files.

 

[Bill2]

Navigate to HKCR\.mdb, set the default value to Access.Application.11

 

[wetdogleader]

Tried Access.Database.8 . It's not that.

 

[Bill2]

See my post no. 6!

 

[wetdogleader]

All fixed! Thank you very much. I've been piddling about with this for hours.
P.S. I think our last posts crossed.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi, welcome to the forums

As well as the advice above, you may want to try the Open With context menu and skip to step 3 of the tutorial.

   Note

You will need to navigate to c:\program files(x86)\Microsoft Office\Office(x) where x is the version number. You can then select Access, Excel, Word etc.

 

[wetdogleader]

Many thanks, I'll look into that.

 

[richnrockville]

Wedogleader: I installed office 2003 pro on my windows 7 machine and then installed all the updates. I don't understand why your install did not create the xls and .doc links for your installed office components.

Can I assume that you installed all the updates to office 2003?

rich

 

[wetdogleader]

I have come up with another problem which is sort of related. If I create a publisher file and try to convert it to pdf via pdf creator as I have done in the past it won't do anything. I have downloaded Primo PDF and when I try that one it comes up with the error message 'No application is associated with the specific file for this operation'. If I right click the publisher file and do 'open with' it is showing that the Recommended Program is Microsoft Office Publisher. Any ideas please. Both Word and Excel docs will convert.