upgraded to office 2007 but files still associated with older vers

[beaker15]

Hi

I have just upgraded a laptop from office 2000 to 2007. It was installed
using the upgrade option but aferwards all of the office files show up as the
Windows icon it uses when it doesn't recognise the file type. Double-clicking
on it brings up 'open with' and i can open it that way. So I uninstalled and
did a fresh install but it gets the same results. 2 things:

1.in 'Folder Options > File Types', .doc, .docx, .xls etc etc files are
associated with Office 97-2000 instead of 2007 but the option to change it is
greyed out (however i wasn't logged in as admin so that might explain it
being unavailable. Even so, i'd rather not go through every office file type
and change them individually).

2. It all works fine when i'm logged in as administrator but not as anybody
else.

thanks

 

[Gordon]

Hi

I have just upgraded a laptop from office 2000 to 2007. It was installed
using the upgrade option but aferwards all of the office files show up as
the
Windows icon it uses when it doesn't recognise the file type.
Double-clicking
on it brings up 'open with' and i can open it that way. So I uninstalled
and
did a fresh install but it gets the same results. 2 things:

1.in 'Folder Options > File Types', .doc, .docx, .xls etc etc files are
associated with Office 97-2000 instead of 2007 but the option to change it
is
greyed out (however i wasn't logged in as admin so that might explain it
being unavailable. Even so, i'd rather not go through every office file
type
and change them individually).

2. It all works fine when i'm logged in as administrator but not as
anybody
else.

thanks

In Windows Explorer, right click on a docx file and use the "always open
with" to open with Word 2007. Do the same with the other file types.

 

[Jacinthe]

Are you still using any of the Office 2000 components? There are probably
still some parts of it leftover. If you do an Add/Remove and uninstall any
Office 2000 components you find there, you'll *probably* be all set.