TSGL: Opening Excel Files with No Association in Vista

[Joe Titone]

At 01:32 PM 2/5/2008, Mike Ferrell <ferrellm at charter.net>  wrote:
>My new PC has Windows Home Premium with Microsoft Works spreadsheet 
>but no Excel.  I received an email from my fishing club with an 
>Excel spreadsheet.  When I try to open the spreadsheet I get the 
>following message:
>"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing 
>this action.  Create an association in the Set Associations control panel."
>When I finally located this Set Associations control panel it does 
>not have a .xls option.  Is there a way for me to open Excel spreadsheets?

1.  You didn't say which version of Works you have, but most versions 
that I've seen allow you to use its spreadsheet to open Office .xls 
files.  First open the Works spreadsheet and use it to open the .xls 
file.  The viewer is also an excellent suggestion, but using it only 
allows you to look at the spreadsheet and print it, but not make changes.

2.  You should be able to make a file association through My Computer 
(Windows Explorer).

View  >>  Folder Options  >>  File Types  >>  New  (this is the path 
for Win XP, I don't have Vista available)

Joe Titone
tertia at earthlink.net