You really want a second instance of excel?????

This may help (or hurt).

You could try:

Tools|options|General tab|Ignore other applications (check it)

Then double click on the workbook in windows explorer.

And be aware that turning this setting on sometimes gives errors with workbooks
that contain spaces in their path/name:

C:\my documents\excel\my book.xls

The error will look kind of like:
cannot find c:\my ..
then
cannot find documents\excel\my
then
cannot find book.xls

Or it may just open excel and not show you the file that you clicked on.

(I'd just start another instance and then file|open the workbook.)

TorontoJames wrote:

Hi Gang!

I opened a spreadsheet from a friend and it changed my excel2000 settings.

Formerly, when I opened a 2nd spreadsheet, it opened a separate excel
window. Now all of my spreadsheets open in one window - very annoying!

I know how to force it, (start-run-excel) but I want to re-set excel2000 to
'automatically' open 2nd workbooks in a new window - like when I doubleclick
a workbook from my desktop, for example.

Help!
Thanks,
.James.

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Dave Peterson