Seems the only way to do this is to open 2 instances of excel and then open
each file once excel is opened




"JP" wrote in message
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Did you try FileOpen? What about selecting both files in the Explorer
and then pressing Enter? I don't recall offhand how to manually start
two instances of Excel.


--JP


On Apr 5, 10:01 am, "fred" wrote:
I want 2 instance of Excel running

I tried that I don't like it