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Originally Posted by CGM3
Mikey, use Windows Explorer to find one of your Excel files and right click it, which should bring up a menu; choose "Open with..." to find which (if any) app is currently associated with that file type. If it differentiates between Excel 2010 and Excel 2013, you should be able to set the latter as the new "go to" program.
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Hello CGM3 (Computer Generated Man, version 3?)
Thanx for the reply. I have already tried to change the file association from Excel 2013 back to Excel 2010, but when I browse to Excel.EXE (2010) and click save, there is a video flash on the screen (like it's trying to add Excel 2010 to the list and then erases it), and only Excel 2013 is shown. To clarify, I right clicked an xlxs file, clicked "open with" and then tried to select Excel 2010. Like so many products these days, I guess Excel 2013 thinks it's the only thing suitable to use, and someone cancels the request for changing the association to an older version. Interestingly, when i try the same procedure with an XLS file, I get the same results. It seems like Microsoft has hardwired something to only allow association with the latest executable.
I suspect my only cure is to uninstall all the old stuff and reinstall 2013. I had intended to do that in the first place, thinking that when I was downloading Office 2013 I could install it later. In actuality, the file I downloaded was setting up Office 2013.
I have been wanting to purge my computer and do a clean install of everything, and I guess this is as good a reason as any.