Hi, I have just installed Win8.1 on Parallels 9. Installed Office 2013 on the Win VM. Late 2013 Retina MacBookPro with Mavericks. Works very nicely. The one problem I am having is that I can't configure Excel and Powerpoint files to open with Windows Office by default in Finder. Quite strangely, I've successfully done this for Word - I have been able to two finger click on a word document in finder, and use the "Get Info" / "Open With" menu to link .doc and .docx to Windows Word no problem - works well. But the Windows version of Excel and Powerpoint do not show up in "Get Info" / "Open With" for .xls(x) and ppt(x). I have stuffed around with "set default programs" in Windows to set Excel / Powerpoint as default for all document types (which I also did for Word). I have also tried to turn off cloud sharing in the Parallels configuration, which seemed to help some people - but not me. It's a bit annoying... any ideas? Thanks, Nick
So I found the answer to my question. A Parallels KB describes a workaround for linking to Windows applications that do not automatically appear in the "Open With" list: http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v9/ga/docs/en_US/Parallels Desktop User's Guide/32927.htm I tend to think something is not right here - surely Windows applications *should* show up in the Open With list. Oh well - at least it is working now. Nick
I have the same issue. I have sharing enabled on both sides but for some reason Excel for Windows will not show up on the Mac "open with" list, whereas Windows apps show quite happily for Word docs, PDF docs and so on.
Hi, I have the same problem and would really need it fixed. It is something wrong with just the link to the Windows Excel program. I DO NOT want to set the default program for .xls files to Windows, but would rather need to use the 'open with' option in Mac.
