New 07 extensions do not open associated programs

T

tstrong

I run vista and office 07. If I click on a file to open, say "myfile.xlsx",
I get a message box to choose the program to use to open the file. If I
click browse and go to the office12 folder and select the excel.exe, Excel
is not added nor is it added to the list of applications.

This is the same for all the new file extensions. docx...
 
H

Herb Tyson [MVP]

This sounds like an installation/repair issue (settings not established
correctly when Office 2007 was installed). I would try to repair office,
using either the Control Panel, or Office - Options - Resources - Diagnose
(in Word, for example) to initiate the repair from an application.
 
T

tstrong

Nope, running a repair did not do it. Any other ideas?

Another symtom is that if I click on the link to start excel from the
recently used programs (start > MS Excel shortcut), nothing happens. I
noticed that there is not a path in the strat in box, so I added one and it
still does not work.
 
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