This seems to be an unavoidable side-effect of having 'Show all windows in
the taskbar' selected in your Excel options. If you can live without this
feature your problem should go away.

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Jim
"Yaz" wrote in message
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| Hi,
| Has anyone come across a problem where the Excel close button needs to be
| clicked twice, before excell fully closes.
| Selecting the office buttonexit excel works fine. However, clicking the
top
| right close button seems to close the winow or active workbook, leaving
excel
| open. All other office apps close with with a single close click. It is
very
| annoying..
|
| Thanks