I have recently upgraded from Office 2000 to Office 2003. (I am running XP
Pro.)

When I open Excel, if I go to ToolsOptionsView the box for Windows in
Taskbar is already checked. However, if I open multiple Excel files, they do
not show in the taskbar.

While the multiple files are open, if I uncheck Windows in Taskbar, and tell
it OK to close the dialogue box, nothing changes as you would expect. If I
then immediately reopen ToolsOptionsView, check the Windows in Taskbar
button, and tell it OK to close the dialogue box, all the open files appear
in the Taskbar.

The problem though is when I shut down the computer. When I reboot the next
morning I have the same scenario from above. It seems as though something in
XP is overriding the Excel command. (I didn't have this problme in Office
2000.)

Can anyone help! Thanks for any ideas.
--
Jim

Hi Jim,
If you right click on the task bar, and go to Properties, there is a tick
box in there somewhere that you need to deselect (something like 'group
similar items in task bar').
--
Hope this helps,
MarkN


"Jim" wrote:

I have recently upgraded from Office 2000 to Office 2003. (I am running XP
Pro.)

When I open Excel, if I go to ToolsOptionsView the box for Windows in
Taskbar is already checked. However, if I open multiple Excel files, they do
not show in the taskbar.

While the multiple files are open, if I uncheck Windows in Taskbar, and tell
it OK to close the dialogue box, nothing changes as you would expect. If I
then immediately reopen ToolsOptionsView, check the Windows in Taskbar
button, and tell it OK to close the dialogue box, all the open files appear
in the Taskbar.

The problem though is when I shut down the computer. When I reboot the next
morning I have the same scenario from above. It seems as though something in
XP is overriding the Excel command. (I didn't have this problme in Office
2000.)

Can anyone help! Thanks for any ideas.
--
Jim

Thanks Mark, but unfortunately that didn't solve the problem.

When I uncheck that box, I still have to go through the scenario I outlined
originally. The only thing different with the 'group similar items in task
bar' unchecked is it lets all the open Excel files each have their own button
in the taskbar.

Before (with Excel 2000), I would only have one button in the taskar for
Excel, but when you clicked on it you would get a drop down list of all open
Excel files. You then selected which file you wanted to switch to.

This thing has got me baffled!!
--
Jim


"MarkN" wrote:

Hi Jim,
If you right click on the task bar, and go to Properties, there is a tick
box in there somewhere that you need to deselect (something like 'group
similar items in task bar').
--
Hope this helps,
MarkN


"Jim" wrote:

I have recently upgraded from Office 2000 to Office 2003. (I am running XP
Pro.)

When I open Excel, if I go to ToolsOptionsView the box for Windows in
Taskbar is already checked. However, if I open multiple Excel files, they do
not show in the taskbar.

While the multiple files are open, if I uncheck Windows in Taskbar, and tell
it OK to close the dialogue box, nothing changes as you would expect. If I
then immediately reopen ToolsOptionsView, check the Windows in Taskbar
button, and tell it OK to close the dialogue box, all the open files appear
in the Taskbar.

The problem though is when I shut down the computer. When I reboot the next
morning I have the same scenario from above. It seems as though something in
XP is overriding the Excel command. (I didn't have this problme in Office
2000.)

Can anyone help! Thanks for any ideas.
--
Jim