I'm guessing it must be a WinXP Pro Aministrative or Services thing but I can't
find where it's happening.

Thanks anyway for your help.

Dennis

Dave Peterson wrote:

Sorry, I don't have any other guess.



wrote:

Dave Peterson wrote:
Maybe you have all of the workbooks open, but the taskbar only shows the
activewindow.
No. when I first bring Excel up there is a blank worksheet labeled book1.xls.
If I then use Explorer to go to the directory with XLS files and highlight two
or more files and then right click and choose "Open" nothing happens. If I
choose only one XLS file and right click and click "open" it opens in Excel
immediately. If I go and double click on another XLS file while the first one
is shown, the 2nd one appears immediately and the 1st one is shown on the task
bar. That is two XLS files are now loaded

What I can't figure out is why one highlighted file will open in Excel but 2 or
more highlighted files will not load at the same time..that is nothing happens.

In Win98SE all highlighted files open in Excel and are shown on the task bar.

If you see lots (and are running xl2k (or higher)), then
tools|options|View tab|check windows in taskbar.

This option is checked