How to revert to having Excel docs open with Excel 2004

I recently purchased and installed Office 2008 for the Mac on my MacBook Pro. I have one HUGE problem with Excel 2008 in that if you have a reasonably sized spreadsheet, 700 lines long by about 10 columns wide and have a chart of some of the data showing on the active (visible) screen, then entering any more data slows to a crawl that is unbelievable... It is unusable... I still have Office 2004 installed. I went to the Excel file in the finder, did a "get info", went into the "open with", changed that back to Excel 2004 and closed the get info window... I then double clicked the file and it opened with Excel 2004, what I wanted... However, the next time I save the workbook file (and I have to do that as I add data to it daily), it immediately reverts back to wanting to be opened with Excel 2008... I also tried clicking the "change all" in the get info window and that doesn't work at all.. If I select Excel 2004 and then click "change all", the very next time I try to open it (whether I have saved or not) it opens with Excel 2008... So that is even worse... I do notice when I click on the "open with" there is the word "default" next to Excel 2008... So is there some way, short of removing Excel 2008 from the computer, which I might have to do, to truly change this "open with" deal such that it will ALWAYS open with Excel 2004??? I'm bummed by a number of features in the new Excel but the forever spinning beach ball when a chart is on the active page is truly a killer... So in summary, short of removing Excel 2008, how do I again make Excel 2004 truly the default app for opening .xls spreadsheets???? thanks much... bob..

Hi... You are correct about the xls versus the xlsx... However, what I've observed is that Excel 2008 is more than happy to open an older .xls file, work on it and then save it, still keeping the .xls extension... But now, after having saved it, even though its extension is still .xls, now it is full of whatever overhead they have put into Excel 2008 that is intolerable... Since I posted earlier, I did some reading and downloaded a preference pane program called "RCDefaultApp-2.0.1.X"... It claims to be good at fixing problems just like what I am describing... But not matter what I do in that little app, if I select Excel 2004 to be the app that opens .xls files, I click that choice and it instantly reverts right back to Excel 2008 before I even leave that window... Bottom line is Excel 2008 has taken control at some level deeper than what that utility can do anything about... Again, I can set the "open with" to Excel 2004 and that works but ONLY until I save the file again... The moment I save it, Excel 2008 grabs control again... I'm an early adopter and I sometimes run into these kinds of problems... I'll figure it out eventually... It was my hope they might have made Excel more efficient at running on Mac OS X now that it is native rather than running under Rosetta but my early impressions are that it has gone dramatically the wrong way... Too bad... Anyway, any other thoughts would be much appreciated.. I haven't yet but I will now go read the links you posted... thanks much... bob...

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