excel 97 and sims

[kennysarmy]

i have a sims user who also needs access to run excel for legacy software.

 

as soon as we install it sims no longer outputs reports

 

does anyone know of a fix that allows a pc to have installed excel 97 and 2003 so that sims.net will run excel 2003 rather than 97 when reports are generated.

 

thanks

[rush_tech]

Don't think there is, SIMS outputs .XML files which only 2003 can open

[mrtechsystems]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

 

Try installing the Office Comp Pack from Microsoft but as Rush Tech says you need Office 2003 and above

[Geoff]

Do you have a terminal server handy? You could run sims on that? Otherwise would VMWare be an option?

[kennysarmy]

Don't think there is, SIMS outputs .XML files which only 2003 can open

 

2003 IS installed I just want SIMS.net to use it instead of defaulting to the excel 97 version that is also installed on this pc....

[rpwillis]

Similarly to Geoff's suggestion for VMWare you could install Virtual PC and install Excel 97 and whatever depends on that in there.

[PhilNeal]

I suspect this is to do with the Windows default program settings on the machine.

[FN-GM]

In folder options set the file format so .xml files will open in version 2003