Simple question about microsoft office

Hello, i have a lot of excel spreadsheats sent to me with people's email addresses listed on them. They are saved as a hyperlink and so when i click on them microsoft outlook opens up to install. Well i don't have that software, i have outlook express. is there anyway to make the default opener outlook express instead of microsoft outlook?
Thanks.

 

gday blade897 open up outlook express go into tool options and in the general tab down the bottom in default messaging program this application is default mail handler should be greyed out if not click on make default and press apply the check the links again

 

haha thanks man! that was simple. Appreciate it.

 

that's ok glad to be of help sometimes even the simple things can be over looked have a great day