Windows 10: Where is Excel in W10? Why can I NOT set it as default app for a specific file?

Hello,


Why is everything so difficult and why is Microsoft trying to force me to use something, or trying to prevent me from using something?


I want to set up Excel as the default app for .xml files.

Cannot be done.

Excel will not show up as an option and it cannot be found in the computer. It's hidden....


Is there a way to find it even though Microsoft doesn't want me to?


Thank you.

:)

 

How to make Excel stop prompting to set a default app.

(1) It is difficult to set a default SPREADSHEET app: the initial page only lists 6 types of default apps, and "spreadsheet" is not one of them. Then, if you try to "Choose default apps by protocol", there is no spreadsheet listing.

2) Then, when you "Choose default apps by file type", and set Excel as the default app for the major ones (including .xlsx), Excel still prompts me to set one.

3) Then, when I went back to "Choose default apps by file type", and tried to set an app for the remaining types that have description "Microsoft Excel...." -- for example ".xld" (Microsoft Excel 5.0 DialogSheet), and ".xlxml" (Microsoft Excel XML Worksheet),
then Microsoft Excel IS NOT OFFERED as an app -- only "Look for an app in the store". (This, even though I have Excel 2016 installed, and have ALREADY SET it as the default for other file types.) And then, if you go to Excel and select "Excel 2016" at the
store... THAT DOESN'T SET IT AS THE DEFAULT, EITHER.

(Since there is no longer a Microsoft Connect, available to non-developers, this is posted here.)

 

How to pin an Excel 2007 file to the W10 Start fly-out menu

I have W10 and Excel 2007.

I commonly use a file XYZ.xlsx, and I'd like to be able to do the following.

Click Start --> hover over the arrow to the right of Excel 2007 --> show jump list --> click on XYZ.xlsx, either under the "Pinned" or the "Recent" section.

However, when I do the steps above, nothing shows under "Pinned", even though I've pinned XYZ.xlsx inside Excel 2007, I've opened, saved and closed the file several times, etc. Somehow W10 still doesn't know this is a file I want to use.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Vince

 

My apps (excel) to show up as an option for default apps

Hi Calman,

You can associate the .xls file type with Microsoft Excel through the Settings app in Windows 10. Here's how:

• Click Start, and then Settings.
• Go to Apps > Default apps.
• Scroll down and then click on Choose default apps by file type.
• In the list of file types, locate .xls, and then click on its corresponding app or
  Choose a default.
• Choose Excel from the list of apps.

We hope this helps. Let us know if you encounter further issues.