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Dual Screens
I want to be able to click on a file to open it in Excel. Then when I click
on a second excel file. I want it to open in a second Excel session on my second monitor. Is this possible, if so...how? Thank you! |
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You have too much money to spend on hardware, my friend ;-)
No, I don't think this is possible (without programming your own "excel switchboard application" and assign that as default xls file handler). The operating system will recognize the running instance of Excel and send the file there, which is the desired behavior in almost all cases. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Scott@PRM" skrev i melding ... I want to be able to click on a file to open it in Excel. Then when I click on a second excel file. I want it to open in a second Excel session on my second monitor. Is this possible, if so...how? Thank you! |
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hi,
no. at least not the way you want. excel open multiple files within the same session. to have 2 session of excel open you would have to open excel twice then open a file in each session. but why?!? 2 sessions of excel open would use twice the memory. Regards FSt1 "Scott@PRM" wrote: I want to be able to click on a file to open it in Excel. Then when I click on a second excel file. I want it to open in a second Excel session on my second monitor. Is this possible, if so...how? Thank you! |
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You could try:
Tools|options|General tab|Ignore other applications (check it) Then double click on the workbook in windows explorer. And be aware that turning this setting on sometimes gives errors with workbooks that contain spaces in their path/name: C:\my documents\excel\my book.xls The error will look kind of like: cannot find c:\my .. then cannot find documents\excel\my then cannot find book.xls == It may be easier/safer/more reliable to start the second instance and then File|open the workbook. And I just use another shortcut (placed on the desktop) to start that second instance-- or I use Windows|start button|run excel and hit enter. Scott@PRM wrote: I want to be able to click on a file to open it in Excel. Then when I click on a second excel file. I want it to open in a second Excel session on my second monitor. Is this possible, if so...how? Thank you! -- Dave Peterson |
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Scott@PRM wrote:
I want to be able to click on a file to open it in Excel. Then when I click on a second excel file. I want it to open in a second Excel session on my second monitor. Is this possible, if so...how? Thank you! ------------------ What I typically do is drag my Excel session across both screens. Then you can open both files in Excel and from Window/Arrange/Cascade you can see both files at once. From there you can drag and stretch the windows to put one on each monitor. Not exactly what you want, but it gets to about the same end point. Bill |
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