Stop Parallels from automatically starting when opening a MS Office file (e.g., xlsx, docx, pptx)

Hi,

I'm running Parallels on MacOS and I recently opened some MS Word and MS Excel documents from the "Mac Side" and Parallels was nice enough to ask me if I wanted to automatically (always) open these files from the "Windows Side" by default.

I clicked "Yes." but now I want to switch back and I can't figure out how to undo my preference.

I can see this issue has been discussed previously (https://forum.parallels.com/threads/prevent-parallels-from-launching-when-opening-a-file.348779/ and https://forum.parallels.com/threads/stop-docs-opening-up-parallels.14768/) but those threads are somewhat old and I can't seem to follow them to undo my change.

To be clear, what happens at the moment is if I double click on a MS Excel file from the Mac Finder, Parallels will automatically fire up and open the Excel file in Windows.

What I would like to ONLY open the Windows app if Parallels is already running.

Thanks.

 

Never mind. I figured it out. It's simply a matter of changing the default "open with" application via Mac Finder.