All Office programs behave the same way. That has nothing to do with Excel.
That is a Windows setting. The setting is in Control Panel - Taskbar and
Start Menu -Taskbar, Uncheck "Group similar taskbar buttons". You will now
have a button for each open workbook.

Tyro

"Thomas Dziuk" wrote in message
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I noticed today the unlike other programs Excel displays its name before
the
file name in the task bar, this makes it very hard to tell which file is
being worked on if the task bar is full, or if the resolution of the
computer
is low. I think the name and the file name should be swapped to be like
Word
which shows the name first.

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