Fred,

You can have a second instance of Excel. Start it again (Start - Programs,
etc). It will complain about not having access to Personal.xls, as usual.
Once it's started, un-maximize it, and move it to your second monitor, then
maximize it.

I think Robin's suggestion of using one instance of Excel spread across the
monitors is probably generally better, unless you're testing working with
separate users. You may not be able to maximize it (it may maximize to one
monitor or the other - mine does), but leaving it in a window and manually
adjusted across both monitors works OK. Same for the document windows (the
inner windows, each containing a workbook).

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"Fred Holmes" wrote in message
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Now that I have dual monitors (forming one logical desktop), I'd sure
love to be able to open a workbook in a second instance of Excel so
that I could display one workbook on the main monitor and the second
workbook on the secondary monitor. Any way to make a workbook
"detachable" or whatever? Even better, detach a worksheet in a
workbook and move it to the secondary monitor?

Excel 2000 running on Windows 2000 with all updates.

If I "upgrade" to XP and/or Office 2003 will that give me the
capability?

Many thanks,

Fred Holmes