Re: setting an older version of office as default


An additional option: Control/Right-Click the file & select the preferred
app from the Open With options in the contextual menu.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 7/9/09 6:54 AM, in article C67B98F5.10F40%mbintener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Michel Bintener" <mbintener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's not much you can do. Office 2008 is used automatically for any
Microsoft Office file format. What you could do as a workaround:

* keep the relevant Office 2004 application open. If Word 2004 is open, and
you double-click a Word document in the Finder, Word 2004 will automatically
be used. If Word is not open, Word 2008 will open instead.

* keep the icons for your favourite applications in the Dock, and open the
files by dragging them to the corresponding icon in the Dock.


On 09/07/09 11:45, in article 59b77c95.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"veeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <veeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

My work recently gave me office 2008 to install on my home computer. However
as I'm not the only one who uses this machine, I wanted to keep the older
version of Office 2004 for the other users and to set Word and Powerpoint
from
the older version as the default applications for doc and ppt files.

The problem is that Office 2008 seems to have set itself as the default and
anything I do to change the defaults back to the older version is ignored.
e.g. if I use command I on a doc file, set it to open with Word 2004 and then
choose change for all, it and other word documents will still automatically
open in Word 2008.

I downloaded a Preference Pane app for setting default applications and in
that Office 2008 is selected as default but with the options to uncheck it
greyed out. I've tried repairing permissions but this hasn't worked either.
The only thing I've found to work that sticks is changing the context menu
with the alt key and selecting Always open with when opening a document. The
problem is I have to basically do this with every single file I have.

Is there anything I can do?

.

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