I'm running Windows 7 and use Office Professional 2013. With the most recent auto update, now when I attempt to double click a Word or Excel file to open it, Office Small Business 2007 attempts to open and configure. Although I had Office SB 2007 on a previous laptop, I don't believe it was ever on this laptop.  If so, it was before I was provided this as a replacement by Dell for the previous laptop.

If I first open Word or Excel with a blank document or recent file, it opens fine.  Then if I double click a Word or Excel file from Windows Explorer while Word/Excel 2013 is still open, the document opens without a problem.

How do I go about correcting the default settings so that when I double click a Word or Excel document it uses my Office Pro 2013 applications to open the file?  Thanks for your help!

• Edited by Millsiii 13 hours 30 minutes ago

Hi,

Probably Office Small Business 2007 is pre-installed on this computer, and somehow Outlook Professional 2013 lost it's file association.

Please have a check in Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features and see if you can find Office Small Business 2007 instance in the list.

To correct this, I would suggest you run Microsoft Fix It tool to remove any previous version of Office from this computer, repair Office 2013 from control panel to re-create the file association, then verify result.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ethan Hua
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