Hi Peo, thanks for responding.

I don't know how "selecting windows in taskbar" works, other that to make
entries into the task bar, and allow you to select from the taskar, it
doesn't look like much. When you start a spreadsheet via double clicks in
explorer all you get is more spreadsheets under the Windows menu item.

If you start the second or thrid copy of Excel from the start menu then you
can have multiple copies run, but at some point, I THINK, Excel will gather
the spreadsheets under on entry. At it seems that is what happens.

I thought there was a setting, a way, or something to tell Excel to open
spreadsheets in a seperate window. How? but for now Start | MS Office |
Excel ... File open ... Blah.

Thanks all for your time and trouble.

--max

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Did you try my solutions with toolsoptionsview and selecting windows in
taskbar

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
www.nwexcelsolutions.com
"It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes;
if you are in one stop digging." Lord Healey


"Max" wrote in message
...
Thanks Gord for responding so quickly.

Something may be wrong with my installation, but when I do Windows | New
Window all I get is another copy of the current window. So the Windows
list
goes form "current.xls" to "current.xls:1" and "current.xls:2" not a new
window like I would expect.

Thanks again,
--max

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

WindowNew Window until you get enough windows.

Then WindowArrange in the configuration you want.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:06:02 -0700, Max
wrote:

This should be easy, but I am not probably asking the correct question
to
help. How do you get mutiple Excel windows to be open at the same
time --
NOT selecting spreads from the Windows menu item but Mutiple Windows on
the
screen each with there own Excel spreadsheet.


Thanks,
--max