I have MS Office Professional 2002 installed on my machine. I
installed the Office 2007 compatibility pack on my computer so I
could use Word XP to open and save documents in .docx and.xls
formats. I find that I am able to open .docx documents, but when
I attempt to open an .xls document, it opens a new tab in Firefox
and displays a window asking whether I want to open the file or
save it to disk. Answering either way gets me a new open tab and
a new window saying the same thing. Any ideas on how to cure this?

..xls = .xps

LuDean Marvin wrote:
> I have MS Office Professional 2002 installed on my machine. I installed
> the Office 2007 compatibility pack on my computer so I could use Word XP
> to open and save documents in .docx and.xls formats. I find that I am
> able to open .docx documents, but when I attempt to open an .xls
> document, it opens a new tab in Firefox and displays a window asking
> whether I want to open the file or save it to disk. Answering either way
> gets me a new open tab and a new window saying the same thing. Any ideas
> on how to cure this?
>

XPS (XML Paper Specificiation) files are not Office editable documents.
Office 2007 apps can create them, as it can PDF files, but cannot then reopen them for editing. Generally XPS files use either a
standalone viewer or a browser extension to open them for viewing/printing.

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<<"LuDean Marvin" <gardenerstouch@hotSSELMAPSmail.com> wrote in message news:uZPs0NhRJHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
..xls = .xps <<
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

I was just coming around to realizing that. The compatibility
package comes with a viewer applet, which is not functioning
properly when I select it to view the file. I found that the
..docx format will import into Word 2002 automatically, but
displays a waring message that certain features the file have
been stripped. Perhaps the xps viewer really requires it to be
opened in IE7 rather than in Firefox. I'm gloing to see if if I
can change the default program for that file extensiion and see
if that works.

Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote:
> XPS (XML Paper Specificiation) files are not Office editable documents.
> Office 2007 apps can create them, as it can PDF files, but cannot then reopen them for editing. Generally XPS files use either a
> standalone viewer or a browser extension to open them for viewing/printing.
>
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> <<"LuDean Marvin"<gardenerstouch@hotSSELMAPSmail.com> wrote in message news:uZPs0NhRJHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> .xls = .xps<<

Ha! That worked!