Excel 2007 Beta Bug

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Feda

When there are two instances of Excel opened at the same time and you click
the undo button after you have undone all of the actions in one of the Excel
instances it jumps to the next Excel instance and starts undoing actions on
that document.
That can not be a desired way for this feature to work.
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Feda,

I agree. That would not be a 'feature'. :)

Could you list the steps you're using when you see this?
When I used the steps below the issue didn't appear.

With no copies of Excel beta 2 running.
1. Start a new instance of an Excel Workbook from the Start menu option.

2. Repeat step one to have a 2nd Excel instance running.

3. Verified in Windows Task Manager that there are two Excel processes running.

4. Two Excel icons appear on the taskbar (icons not grouped)

5. In Book 1 typed "this is some text" in A1

6. Switched to the 2nd instance via the task bar icons
and repeated step5.

7. Switched back to the 1st instance and clicked the
undo icon until it was greyed out.

8. Switched back to the 2nd instance and the content
was still there.

Could you also check in Excel Options to see what,
if any Add-ins it shows as running?

=========When there are two instances of Excel opened at the same time and you click the undo button after you have undone all of the actions
in one of the Excel instances it jumps to the next Excel instance and starts undoing actions on that document. That can not be a
desired way for this feature to work.>>
 
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Harlan Grove

Feda wrote...
When there are two instances of Excel opened at the same time and you click
the undo button after you have undone all of the actions in one of the Excel
instances it jumps to the next Excel instance and starts undoing actions on
that document.
That can not be a desired way for this feature to work.
Click to expand...

Do you really mean two distinct application instances or just two
workbooks each with an entry in the Windows Taskbar? If the latter,
that's how Excel 2002 and 2003 work, so unlikely Microsoft would
consider it a bug.

I did run 2 separate application instances, going through the Windows
Start menu twice, and I can't replicate this, i.e., when all changes
are backed out of one instance and I keep pressing [Ctrl]+Z, the only
thing that happens is that Excel beeps at me, but it leaves the other
application instance unchanged.

One way to check whether this is two instances or just two windows is
by pressing the [Ctrl]+[F6] key combination. Does that switch between
the two instances/windows? If it does, they're just different windows
running under the same instance.

The idea of putting a separate entry for each open Office app window in
the Windows Taskbar was one of the worst ones anyone at Microsoft has
had in the last decade. The confusion it causes more than offsets the
supposed convenience.
 
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Feda

I could replicate it by opening two different excel worbooks by
doubleclicking on them in a folder. There were two Excel instances shown in
the Task Manager under Applications but only one under Processes.
The two were acting like separate applications, using the close button would
only close one workbook unlike in earler version where it would close all
open workbooks.
 
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