I am in IT support and a user asked me about that. I know there are the two
X's but for some reason she likes to have separate instances running so she
can click the top X and only close the active workbook. I just thought there
might be a setting in excel or in Microsoft that would allow you to do this.
I will let her know that the correct way to do this is to open excel
seperately and then open the file(s) of interest. Thank you very much for
your help.

"FSt1" wrote:

hi,
in excel, there are 2 X's. the big red X closes excel and all worksheets.
the small black x under the big red X closes the active work sheet only and
leaves the rest of the worksheets open.
Regards
FSt1

"Waterboy" wrote:

When I open an excel document, excel opens the document in the same instance
of excel. When you close excel, it closes all open workbooks. I would like
to be able to close the instance of excel that I am working in (by hitting
the top X) and continue to work on seperate excel documents that are open.
This works in Word, but not in excel. Any ideas on how to fix this one?
Thank you!