This might be it:

Tools - Options - View tab - Show: Windows in taskbar.

Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com

"3R's" wrote in message
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I've been trying to open multiple wookbooks in Excel, but they won't open
in
a new window. Instead they continue to open in the same window - one on
top
of the other. I've tried playing around with the maximize and restore,
but
to no avail. I tried right clicking on the Excel button in the taskbar to
cascade the windows, but the pop-up menu is inactive. any advice would be
greatly appreciated.

Running Excel 2003, Windows XP.