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Yularmo24
All of the Microsoft Office applications behave the same, except for Excel.
All of the other applications open new instances of the application when
additional files are open, but Excel opens them within the same Excel window.
This proves problematic for multi-monitor environments. For example, if I
have two Word documents open, I can view one Word document on one monitor and
the other on the other monitor. However, because Excel places all open files
in the same application, I can only view spreadsheets on one monitor. This is
very frustrating. Every application I work with (Microsoft or otherwise) will
allow me to view one file in one window and another in the other window,
except Excel. It's also frustrating to forget this aspect of Excel, and,
when closing out a spreadsheet, mistakenly closing out all open spreadsheets
instead. There should be a seamless integration between all Office
applications that's missing because Excel operates differently than the rest
of Office. Unfortunately, this has been the case for many versions of Office.
I had hoped this would be resolved by Office XP. Alas, 2003 is out and the
issue still exists.
All of the other applications open new instances of the application when
additional files are open, but Excel opens them within the same Excel window.
This proves problematic for multi-monitor environments. For example, if I
have two Word documents open, I can view one Word document on one monitor and
the other on the other monitor. However, because Excel places all open files
in the same application, I can only view spreadsheets on one monitor. This is
very frustrating. Every application I work with (Microsoft or otherwise) will
allow me to view one file in one window and another in the other window,
except Excel. It's also frustrating to forget this aspect of Excel, and,
when closing out a spreadsheet, mistakenly closing out all open spreadsheets
instead. There should be a seamless integration between all Office
applications that's missing because Excel operates differently than the rest
of Office. Unfortunately, this has been the case for many versions of Office.
I had hoped this would be resolved by Office XP. Alas, 2003 is out and the
issue still exists.