Initially I had MS Office 2004 on my Mac and MS Office 2003 on my WinXP guest OS. Then I "upgraded" to MS Office 2007 on WinXP. I uninstalled that and reinstalled Office 2003. Then I decided that I'd rather not have Office 2004 on the Mac side.
So right now I only have one version of Office: 2003 on the XP side. I have set the Mac file associations so that when I click on a .doc, .xls, or .ppt file, the correct Office app launches and opens the file. On the XP side, this is true for .doc and .xls, but not .ppt. I have those funky "ppt_auto_file" file types. All of the SmartSelect options are correct.
When I right-click on a .ppt file and select "open with", I get a long list of applications but PowerPoint isn't one of them. I do see Word and Excel.
I suppose one answer is to reinstall Windows and then reinstall Office so that but I'd rather not do that. Is there a reason that the "xxx_auto_file" is used?
So right now I only have one version of Office: 2003 on the XP side. I have set the Mac file associations so that when I click on a .doc, .xls, or .ppt file, the correct Office app launches and opens the file. On the XP side, this is true for .doc and .xls, but not .ppt. I have those funky "ppt_auto_file" file types. All of the SmartSelect options are correct.
When I right-click on a .ppt file and select "open with", I get a long list of applications but PowerPoint isn't one of them. I do see Word and Excel.
I suppose one answer is to reinstall Windows and then reinstall Office so that but I'd rather not do that. Is there a reason that the "xxx_auto_file" is used?
