Hi
maybe: Tools - Options - General and uncheck 'Ignore other applications'

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

wrote:
I have Excel 2000 and Win XP pro.

I used to be able to highlight many XLS files in Explorer, right
click, choose open and all the highlighted files would open in Excel
with the different xls files on my task bar.

I can still do this on my W98 computer, but I can only open one file
at a time on my Win XP computer. If I double click on a 2nd XLS file
the 2nd XLS file opens and the first file closes.

I tried the run excel.exe /regserv fix but this did not solve the
problem.

Does anyone know how to fix this for Win XP?

Thanks

Dennis