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Saturday, February 11, 2012
How to Default to Excel 2003 and Not 2007
1. Close any open spreadsheet programs on your computer.
2. Click 'Start' in the lower left corner and then 'Documents' to open the directory containing your spreadsheet files.
3. Find a spreadsheet file that you want to associate with Excel 2003. The file will have a spreadsheet extension such as xls, csv or xlsx. Right-click the file name and select 'Properties' to view the file extension if it is not otherwise visible.
4. Right-click the file name and scroll to 'Open with' in the dialog box that appears. Then click 'Choose default program' to open another dialog box.
5. Click the Excel 2003 icon to set this as the default program for opening all spreadsheet files with the same extension as you selected earlier.Click 'Browse' if the Excel 2003 icon is not visible and double-click the program's name from you directory list of available programs.