excel was designed to work the way it does.
the only suggestion i could make would be to open multiple
sessions of excel. but watch your memory usage.

-----Original Message-----
My elderly father uses lots of Excel workbooks for
different lists etc, but
with2 or 3 open they all open within '1 Excel
program'. Can Excel be set
to open each workbook into its own window rather like
Publisher or even
Internet Explorer?

It would enable easier+ more understandable switching
between panes and
more importantly closing the prog/ 1 file without saving
won't mean he
closes ALL without saving as has been the case- on more
than 1 occasion
now..
Using Autosave isn't always the best method either since
it then 'freezes'
the file stopping the ability to UNDO


regards
AW


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