Office 2003. Vista Home Premium. I want to open two instances of excel
to compare so I click "ignore other applications" in options/general.
That works fine but now I can't double click an excel file in explorer
to open it. If I do I get the error "Windows can't find "c:... the path
and file."

I put excel in my "send to" and if right click the excel file and use
send to, then it works. All seems very strange.

Is there any other way to open multiple excel files other than ignore
other applications?

John