How do to erase a program by default

I put (mistakenly) Open (default) Office program to open all programs it can.  I can longer open spreadsheets in Excel.  How do I cancel my mistake?  Thank you - Skeet0

davidhk129 - thank you.

While waiting for a response, I have uninstalled Open Office.  When I followed your suggestion, I found that Excel is now the current default for .xls.  I did not uninstall Open Office, it would not have been difficult to set all other extensions.

Thanks again.

Skeet0

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