I'm using Office 2003, and it has two sets of Window Buttons--exactly the
same as Word. If I hit the bottom X, it only closes the active document.

Perhaps I don't have this problem because I use Ctrl+w when I want to close
only the active workbook. Or, File | Close.

tj

"Robert Brown" wrote:

Excel seems to be running in an MDI (Multiple Document Interface) style mode.
All other office products are SDI (Single Document Interface) or at least
work that way. The problem is that when you close Excel, with the X in the
corner, you wind up closing all of the Excel documents, even though it asks
you if you want to save them, the most common thing to do is say no when you
have just looked at a spreadsheet quickly, since at times Office applications
ask even when no apparent changes were made.

It is true that we should be more careful and fully read the pop up boxes
that appear, but after at least a year of this affecting me, I still wind up
not saving a document and wind up losing a lot of work because I close a
spreadsheet the same way I would a word document, only the spreadsheet closes
all spreadsheets and work only closes the document that is currently
displayed.

It is very frustrating and has cost me a lot of time and money.