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Opening an Excel file in a DIFFERENT process clicking on its SHORT
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Question is in the title ;-) I need every single user of my file to open it in A DIFFERENT PROCESS only by clicking on the shortcut, and without having to open excel separately and then open the file from the instanced process... Users will work on different computers, on Excel 2002 SP3. Is there a VBA code or an option I can switch to enable that in Excel ?? I already know how to do it with a VBS file, but running scripts is not authorized on the computers users will work with. Maybe I can add a "\Excel.exe -..." parameter in the properties of the Excel file to make it ? Thx! |
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Opening an Excel file in a DIFFERENT process clicking on its SHORT
This may work...
You can change this setting: Tools|Options|General tab|Ignore other applications (check it) Be aware that one side effect of having this setting checked is sometimes you can't open a file by double clicking on it in explorer. (toggle it back and that should be fixed.) This shows up for workbooks that have spaces in their name or path: c:\my documents\excel\testworkbook.xls or c:\test of workbook2.xls Cannot find C:\my, then more "Cannot find ..." messages. It's more trouble than it's worth (for me, anyway). If I want a second instance of excel, I'll just use: windows start button|run excel then file|Open to open my file. But I rarely want separate instances of excel. Patachoup wrote: Hello, Question is in the title ;-) I need every single user of my file to open it in A DIFFERENT PROCESS only by clicking on the shortcut, and without having to open excel separately and then open the file from the instanced process... Users will work on different computers, on Excel 2002 SP3. Is there a VBA code or an option I can switch to enable that in Excel ?? I already know how to do it with a VBS file, but running scripts is not authorized on the computers users will work with. Maybe I can add a "\Excel.exe -..." parameter in the properties of the Excel file to make it ? Thx! -- Dave Peterson |
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Opening an Excel file in a DIFFERENT process clicking on its S
hello, thx for the answer but i need more advice !
1/ this option (Tools|Options|General tab|Ignore other applications) is useless because my wbk is linked to RTD applications, so i MUST NOT tick this function 2/ I know HOW TO open another instance of excel! (cf my first post!) by clicking excel application shortcut then open...but I already told I dont wanna use that :) 3/ I guess I need to get the Excel launch parameters list, there must be one somewhere listing all the start excel suffix parameters... ex: Excel.exe /Safe to run excel in safe mode So now I will be looking for this list, do u know where I can find it ?? Thx in advance. "Dave Peterson" wrote: This may work... You can change this setting: Tools|Options|General tab|Ignore other applications (check it) Be aware that one side effect of having this setting checked is sometimes you can't open a file by double clicking on it in explorer. (toggle it back and that should be fixed.) This shows up for workbooks that have spaces in their name or path: c:\my documents\excel\testworkbook.xls or c:\test of workbook2.xls Cannot find C:\my, then more "Cannot find ..." messages. It's more trouble than it's worth (for me, anyway). If I want a second instance of excel, I'll just use: windows start button|run excel then file|Open to open my file. But I rarely want separate instances of excel. Patachoup wrote: Hello, Question is in the title ;-) I need every single user of my file to open it in A DIFFERENT PROCESS only by clicking on the shortcut, and without having to open excel separately and then open the file from the instanced process... Users will work on different computers, on Excel 2002 SP3. Is there a VBA code or an option I can switch to enable that in Excel ?? I already know how to do it with a VBS file, but running scripts is not authorized on the computers users will work with. Maybe I can add a "\Excel.exe -..." parameter in the properties of the Excel file to make it ? Thx! -- Dave Peterson |
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Opening an Excel file in a DIFFERENT process clicking on its S
#1. I don't speak RTD
#2. ok. #3. Look in excel's help for startup switch Patachoup wrote: hello, thx for the answer but i need more advice ! 1/ this option (Tools|Options|General tab|Ignore other applications) is useless because my wbk is linked to RTD applications, so i MUST NOT tick this function 2/ I know HOW TO open another instance of excel! (cf my first post!) by clicking excel application shortcut then open...but I already told I dont wanna use that :) 3/ I guess I need to get the Excel launch parameters list, there must be one somewhere listing all the start excel suffix parameters... ex: Excel.exe /Safe to run excel in safe mode So now I will be looking for this list, do u know where I can find it ?? Thx in advance. "Dave Peterson" wrote: This may work... You can change this setting: Tools|Options|General tab|Ignore other applications (check it) Be aware that one side effect of having this setting checked is sometimes you can't open a file by double clicking on it in explorer. (toggle it back and that should be fixed.) This shows up for workbooks that have spaces in their name or path: c:\my documents\excel\testworkbook.xls or c:\test of workbook2.xls Cannot find C:\my, then more "Cannot find ..." messages. It's more trouble than it's worth (for me, anyway). If I want a second instance of excel, I'll just use: windows start button|run excel then file|Open to open my file. But I rarely want separate instances of excel. Patachoup wrote: Hello, Question is in the title ;-) I need every single user of my file to open it in A DIFFERENT PROCESS only by clicking on the shortcut, and without having to open excel separately and then open the file from the instanced process... Users will work on different computers, on Excel 2002 SP3. Is there a VBA code or an option I can switch to enable that in Excel ?? I already know how to do it with a VBS file, but running scripts is not authorized on the computers users will work with. Maybe I can add a "\Excel.exe -..." parameter in the properties of the Excel file to make it ? Thx! -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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