My wife and I share a laptop computer on which I’ve installed Office 2007, while keeping Office 2003. I need Office 2007 for my work, while my wife needs Office 2003 for her work.
We are also using Windows XP Professional, SP2. We have separate user accounts on the machine.
Does anyone know of a way that I can re-associate Office 2003 applications with office file types for her user account?
So far, I’ve tried re-associating the types using Control Panel –> Folder Options –> File Types. This doesn’t seem to work. Specifically, (1) I select the PPT extension; (2) Click the Change button; (3) Click browse; (4) Navigate to Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\Powerpnt.exe; (4) I then select the executable and click Open. However, it does not update the Open With list. Instead, PowerPoint 2007 still appears in the list. By the way, the install path for Office 2007 is Program Files\Microsoft Office 2007\; Office 2003 is located at Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\
My end goal is for my wife to be able to double-click any PowerPoint (or other Office file) and have that file open in the associated Office 2003 application instead of opening in Office 2007. It would also be nice if I could preserve my file associations in my user account such that Office files open in Office 2007.
Any thoughts? Thank you!