I edited some stuff in the ADVANCED area of FILE TYPES after googling the
problem, but to no avail.

That is the answer though. Go into file types again and find each extension
you want to modify, XLSX, XLSM, etc. In Advanced and Open uncheck Use DDE.
And then add a space and a %1 after the /e on the command line. This will
made Windows open a new Excel instance with each file loaded by
double-clicking it.

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Jim
"Frumpy Jones" wrote in message
...
| in older excel versions I could literally have two instances of excel
running
| and could open an xls in each instance which made it easier to see the
data I
| need.
|
| Can't seem to do it in 2007 (Even though Word still does it).
|
| I edited some stuff in the ADVANCED area of FILE TYPES after googling the
| problem, but to no avail.
|
| Please help :)