set xls in emails to open with excel

locate one of these files within Finder. Hold down your control key on your keyboard, then click on the file. Select "Get info"

A long skinny window will open.

Change the "open with" drop down to show Excel, then click the "change all" button

No. I think what you need to do, is save the document from your email, to your computer first. Once you have saved it, then follow the above steps.

When you go to the mail, you should see that you can download the document. Did you do that?

Start by answering the question?

Did you follow Microsofts instructions for the removal of Office 2011 at the link I posted.

So I downloaded the uninstall program and ran that

There is no uninstall program, what did you download?

(Hopefully you did not download from here)

Then we can move on!

If you still have the same problem (and I suspect that you will)

Note this: (no guarantees are made about its effectiveness)

And this (especially the bit about Unofficial)

Use the correct procedure next time, (but you may get lucky)

richardlw wrote:

Then I guess I'll start over tomorrow. Thanks for your help

At least I've downloaded the updates 14.2 and 14.3 so they are on my drive.

I don't really like playing with scripts or deleting miscellaneous things, which is why I thought that uninstaller would be the way to go to avoid screwups.

All more reasons to hate microsoft,

The uninstaller you used has nothing to do with Microsoft so (for once) we won't blame them. But shame on MS for not providing one with Office 2011 (Office 2008 for Mac had one, MS left it out in 2011)

Other than Excel Office 2011 is dreadful, Word is mediocre and Outlook does not support iCloud services (contacts and calendars etc) at all (curiously the Windows version does support iCloud, but as I said, MS never make much sense)

All more reasons to hate microsoft, but no one comes close to Excel, that I've used since version 1.2 for Mac back in the late 80's or so, except for the period of excel 2008 that had no macros.

Excel for Windows is the benchmark for spreadsheets, Excel for Mac not quite as good but second best.

In Finder, select an Excel spreadsheet and hit command-I to bring up the "Get Info" window. Under the "Open With..." area choose Excel in the option (if Excel isn't there, you can choose "Other" and go select it from the Applications folder. Once that's done, click the "Change All" button below it and indicate that is what you want to do.

Do you mean that you this update?

Because 14.1.0 is rather old.

The uninstall and reinstall is not that time consuming, but that update (that you say isn't the latest), unless the download is hidden somewhere, is a two hour download after the re-install.

Then you are doing it wrong, removal of Office 2011 is an entirely manual procedure, it takes MS 11 steps to describe the process. Your installation is 4 updates old.

This document tells youHow to remove Office 2011

If you just installed over the existing copy you brought the problem along for the ride.

richardlw wrote:

When I brought it over, it did not open. So I downloaded the uninstall program and ran that. Rebooted

There is no uninstaller for Office 2011, what did you use?

Then installed from scratch. Rebooted

Then ran the microsoft update. Rebooted

Ran the microsoft update program and got the message that it was up to date. I just ran it again, and this time it tells me that 14.2.3 is availble, so I'm downloading it.

As I said, the current version is 14.3.0

I provided a link to the correct instructions for removing Office, I have no idea as to what you actually did so can't offer any advice as I am in the dark over here.

richardlw wrote:

Remove-Office-2011-Uninstaller.pkg_

This is like pulling teeth, Where did you download it from (as it is not a Microsoft Product)

And you still are ignoring my question

Did you follow Microsofts directions for the removal of Office 2011.

Yes or no please.

Does it happen with any file or just Excel files?

Oh, and can I assume that the reason you will not answer my question is because you did not follow Microsoft's instructions on how to correctly remove Office, but substituted an "Unofficial App with No guarantees of success" because it was easier?