How do I get multiple Excel Windows again

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W. Scott Howard

How do you set Excel 2003 to support seperat windows for each file? Since we
upgraded we have been fighting to get his back so we can view files side by
side. Having the "Internal" windows inside excel does not achieve this very
well for our uses. If you know how to get each excel file open in their own
instance of Excel 2003 please help.
 
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Gord Dibben

How about Window>New Window?

Then Window>Arrange to suit.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:29:25 -0700, W. Scott Howard <W. Scott
 
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W. Scott Howard

Elkar, That shows multiple icons in the task bar but only ONE Excel Window.
Clicking the diffrent Taskbar icons switchs the front or active workbook.
However I would like multiple Windowed instances of Excel, so I could have
for example

Excel Word Excel
|-------| |-------| |-------|
| | | | | |
|File 1 | | File 2| |File 3 |
| | | | | |
|-------| |-------| |-------|


[Start] ================ 14:40

Thanks
 
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Elkar

Are you starting a separate instance of Excel for each window you want to
use? Or are you opening all of your spreadsheets from one instance?
Starting Excel seperately for each worksheet should work. It does for me.


W. Scott Howard said:
Elkar, That shows multiple icons in the task bar but only ONE Excel Window.
Clicking the diffrent Taskbar icons switchs the front or active workbook.
However I would like multiple Windowed instances of Excel, so I could have
for example

Excel Word Excel
|-------| |-------| |-------|
| | | | | |
|File 1 | | File 2| |File 3 |
| | | | | |
|-------| |-------| |-------|


[Start] ================ 14:40

Thanks
Elkar said:
Tools --> Options --> View Tab --> Check "Windows in Taskbar"

HTH,
Elkar
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W. Scott Howard

Thank you, But how do you get it to default to a seperate instance for every
file?

Elkar said:
Are you starting a separate instance of Excel for each window you want to
use? Or are you opening all of your spreadsheets from one instance?
Starting Excel seperately for each worksheet should work. It does for me.


W. Scott Howard said:
Elkar, That shows multiple icons in the task bar but only ONE Excel Window.
Clicking the diffrent Taskbar icons switchs the front or active workbook.
However I would like multiple Windowed instances of Excel, so I could have
for example

Excel Word Excel
|-------| |-------| |-------|
| | | | | |
|File 1 | | File 2| |File 3 |
| | | | | |
|-------| |-------| |-------|


[Start] ================ 14:40

Thanks
Elkar said:
Tools --> Options --> View Tab --> Check "Windows in Taskbar"

HTH,
Elkar


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How do you set Excel 2003 to support seperat windows for each file? Since we
upgraded we have been fighting to get his back so we can view files side by
side. Having the "Internal" windows inside excel does not achieve this very
well for our uses. If you know how to get each excel file open in their own
instance of Excel 2003 please help.
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