Hi Jim

It is only opening one instance of Excel.
You can change the display mode however, by choosing the round Office
buttonExcel optionsAdvancedDisplay untick Show all Windows in
taskbar.

It is a matter of personal preference as to whether you see each
workbook in the taskbar, and click it to activate, or whether you click
the single Excel icon and scroll to the Workbook you wish to activate. I
prefer the former.

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Regards

Roger Govier


"Jim Lally" wrote in message
...
.....when I open multiple spreadsheets in Excel 07, it opens (what
appears to be) an individual instance of Excel for each sheet that I
open.

Is there a way to have ONLY ONE INSTANCE of Excel open for as many
sheets as I open (such that they are all accessible via the first
instance of the program that I open)?

I've looked through all the option settings but nothing seems to
address this.

Please help, thanks!