Open only one instance of Excel - 2003
 

Hi All

I recently upgraded to Excel 2003 and have discovered much to my
irritation that every time you open a new document, a new instance of
Excel is opened. I should imagine that this hijacks a lot of the system
resources? Is there a setting that I can change to stop this? :confused:


I just want only one instance and I've searched on the net, but have
found nothing.

Kind Regards


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Normally Excel uses an open instance of Excel, if any, to launch a workbook,
so something has monkeyed with your settings. Try executing "Excel.exe
/regserver" from Start-Run (no quotes, there is a space before the slash)
to reset them.

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| I recently upgraded to Excel 2003 and have discovered much to my
| irritation that every time you open a new document, a new instance of
| Excel is opened. I should imagine that this hijacks a lot of the system
| resources? Is there a setting that I can change to stop this? :confused:
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| I just want only one instance and I've searched on the net, but have
| found nothing.
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Open only one instance of Excel - 2003
 

Are either of these options checked in Tools Options

General: Ignore Remote Requests

View: Windows in Taskbar (gives the impression of multiple instances)

Regards,
Peter T


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Hi All

I recently upgraded to Excel 2003 and have discovered much to my
irritation that every time you open a new document, a new instance of
Excel is opened. I should imagine that this hijacks a lot of the system
resources? Is there a setting that I can change to stop this? :confused:


I just want only one instance and I've searched on the net, but have
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Kind Regards


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Hi Guys :)

Thanks for all your help. My problem has been solved.

Kind Regards


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Great, how?

Regards,
Peter T

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Hi Guys :)

Thanks for all your help. My problem has been solved.

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Hi Peter

I couldn't try out Jim's suggestion because I'm not allowed to fiddle
with anything to do with the registry or anything with servers in it. I
might make a booboo :) I asked one of our technical guys to try it out,
but he never got back to me.

I tried your suggestion though, I deselected this view.
View: Windows in Taskbar

Thanks to you both.

Kind Regards


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Hi Poppy,

Thanks for the follow-up. From memory I think "Windows in Taskbar" is the
default setup. This gives the impression of multiple instances, but it
isn't!

Regards,
Peter T

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Hi Peter

I couldn't try out Jim's suggestion because I'm not allowed to fiddle
with anything to do with the registry or anything with servers in it. I
might make a booboo :) I asked one of our technical guys to try it out,
but he never got back to me.

I tried your suggestion though, I deselected this view.
View: Windows in Taskbar

Thanks to you both.

Kind Regards


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