The "Browse in same window" check box is unavailable for 2007 Office file types after you install the "Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats"

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SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario:

You install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats (Beta 2 Technical Refresh).
In Windows Explorer, you click Tools, and then you click Folder Options.
On the File Types tab, you select a 2007 Microsoft Office file type, such as DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX, in the list of file types.
You click Advanced.

In this scenario, the Browse in same window check box is unavailable in the Edit File Type dialog box.

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This issue occurs because the Compatibility Pack does not support the file type setting Browse in same window. This file type setting is only available if you install a 2007 Office suite or program.

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MORE INFORMATION

For more information about how to obtain and to use the Compatibility Pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

924074 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074/ ) How to use earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to open and save files from 2007 Office programs

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