Background: I have had a laptop/notebook computer for years, but I never use it for serious work. I work at a desktop, and the portable is for carrying files, doing light updates/edits, and keeping tabs on e-mail and some forums when traveling. I recently decided I'd rather travel a bit lighter, so the last notebook has been replaced by an Acer Aspire One netbook.
The Acer does everything I need. The issue: It came with a 60-day demo version of Microsoft Office 2007 on the drive, with a utility to activate it. I skipped that and just installed my Office Pro suite, which I have updated with the Microsoft patch to open .DOCX files.
All was well until I received an e-mail with a .DOCX attachment, tried to open it, and the &^%$#@*& computer defaulted to trying to fire up Word 2007 to open it. I've wasted nearly an hour trying to figure out just where Microsoft stashes the .exe files for Word 2003 and Word 2007, so I can set a file default to use Word 2003 to always open .DOCX documents.
I'm also strongly tempted to delete the demo version of Office (Home) 2007 from the computer ... but I don't know what to delete to get rid of it.
Any IT support gurus out there with some guidance?
Semi-related question: Does anyone know if the latest version(s) of Open Office support .DOCX files?