Last updated: September 2018 Applicable to the following Office versions: 2019,2016,2013, 365; Windows 7, Windows 10 and partly to MAC OSX Here’s a question we received from one of our readers: “I’ve installed a new version of Office 365 in my system, but after the installation all my Office documents are showing up as unknown file types. Can you help me to set Office 365 as the default file opener for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Vision files?” Thanks for the question. In this post we will learn how to set your new Office version (being it 2016 or 2019) as default for the files types mentioned above.

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Word 2010 easily opens documents created by older versions of the program. It even saves them in the older Word formats, so normally nothing goes wrong. Microsoft Office for Mac; Word. 3 Select the older word document and click the Open button. The Word document opens and is displayed onscreen. You see the text [Compatibility Mode.

Making Office 2016/2019 the default program instead of older versions Windows allows us to associate the newer Office version to all relevant files by executing a Quick Repair action from the Control panel. Steps are described below. • Click on Excel 2016 and check on Always use this app to open.xlsx files. • Now you can see that all.xlsx files default program is set to Excel 2016.

Note: Using a similar procedure, will allow you to make Excel the default program for csv, Google Sheets, Open Office. Word 2016 If Microsoft Word 2016 is not your default program proceed as following: • Right click on the.docx file, move over open with and select Choose another app. • Click on Word 2016 and check on Always use this app to open.docx files. • Now you can see that all.docx files default program is set to Word 2016.

PowerPoint 2016: • Right click on the.pptx file, move over open with and select Choose another app. • Click on PowerPoint 2016 and check on Always use this app to open.pptx files. • You are all set. Additional notes: • There might be cases, mainly around compatibility with older file formats, in which you might want to leaver the older Office versions (2010 and older) as default.

• There might be cases in which Word, Powerpoint or Excel 2016, will not be listed in the default program list. If that’s the case immediately after you have installed the new version, you might want to restart your computer and re-check. If there is still an issue, you might need to re-run the installation program. • Compatibility issues might arise when trying to open Microsoft Office files in Open Office, Libre and Google Docs. Next steps • Still got an unanswered question? See our guide on how to.