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Opening multiple files separately
When opening multiple excel files they used to all open in separate versions of Excel which was great because then I could easily Alt-Tab between them. Now all of a sudden when ever I open new excel files by double clicking the name they open in the same Excel program but as a separate window. This is a real pain because it's hard to cycle through them and they keep minimizing whenever I maximize another one. I haven't changed any settings that I know of, is there a way to get each file to open separately again? -- pjyelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pjyelton's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26608 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=398804 |
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You sure you just didn't have:
Tools|options|View|Windows in taskbar checked. (It's only one instance of excel, but you can have multiple icons on the windows taskbar.) pjyelton wrote: When opening multiple excel files they used to all open in separate versions of Excel which was great because then I could easily Alt-Tab between them. Now all of a sudden when ever I open new excel files by double clicking the name they open in the same Excel program but as a separate window. This is a real pain because it's hard to cycle through them and they keep minimizing whenever I maximize another one. I haven't changed any settings that I know of, is there a way to get each file to open separately again? -- pjyelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pjyelton's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26608 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=398804 -- Dave Peterson |
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pjyelton,
You can use Ctrl-Tab to cycle through them, or in later version of Excel, Tools - Options - View - Windows in Taskbar. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com "pjyelton" wrote in message ... When opening multiple excel files they used to all open in separate versions of Excel which was great because then I could easily Alt-Tab between them. Now all of a sudden when ever I open new excel files by double clicking the name they open in the same Excel program but as a separate window. This is a real pain because it's hard to cycle through them and they keep minimizing whenever I maximize another one. I haven't changed any settings that I know of, is there a way to get each file to open separately again? -- pjyelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pjyelton's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26608 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=398804 |
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Thanks, that worked! I never unchecked that option, but our work did a lot of updates on these computers so maybe somehow it got unchecked that way. -- pjyelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pjyelton's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26608 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=398804 |
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Pjyelton replied to my reply, but "Message is longer on the server." Anyone else see his reply? Others have seen similar things going in in the newsgroups lately. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com "Earl Kiosterud" wrote in message ... pjyelton, You can use Ctrl-Tab to cycle through them, or in later version of Excel, Tools - Options - View - Windows in Taskbar. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com "pjyelton" wrote in message ... When opening multiple excel files they used to all open in separate versions of Excel which was great because then I could easily Alt-Tab between them. Now all of a sudden when ever I open new excel files by double clicking the name they open in the same Excel program but as a separate window. This is a real pain because it's hard to cycle through them and they keep minimizing whenever I maximize another one. I haven't changed any settings that I know of, is there a way to get each file to open separately again? -- pjyelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pjyelton's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26608 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=398804 |
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It's there this morning (morning for me):
Thanks, that worked! I never unchecked that option, but our work did a lot of updates on these computers so maybe somehow it got unchecked that way. Sometimes if you disconnect from the server (I close my newsreader) and then wait a bit, then retry, it'll show up. Earl Kiosterud wrote: Pjyelton replied to my reply, but "Message is longer on the server." Anyone else see his reply? Others have seen similar things going in in the newsgroups lately. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com "Earl Kiosterud" wrote in message ... pjyelton, You can use Ctrl-Tab to cycle through them, or in later version of Excel, Tools - Options - View - Windows in Taskbar. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com "pjyelton" wrote in message ... When opening multiple excel files they used to all open in separate versions of Excel which was great because then I could easily Alt-Tab between them. Now all of a sudden when ever I open new excel files by double clicking the name they open in the same Excel program but as a separate window. This is a real pain because it's hard to cycle through them and they keep minimizing whenever I maximize another one. I haven't changed any settings that I know of, is there a way to get each file to open separately again? -- pjyelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pjyelton's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26608 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=398804 -- Dave Peterson |
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