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Excel should support multiple monitors better (like Word does)
Using multiple monitors (laptop screen + monitor in my case) Word allows you
to have 2 documents open - one in each monitor). This would be VERY useful in Excel when trying to compare woorksheets. |
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I don't own two monitors, but try starting a second instance of excel to see if
that helps. CoffeeAdict wrote: Using multiple monitors (laptop screen + monitor in my case) Word allows you to have 2 documents open - one in each monitor). This would be VERY useful in Excel when trying to compare woorksheets. -- Dave Peterson |
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Is there a way to open a truly independant instance of Excel - rather then
another sub-window within the master window? This would solve this problem. As an aside - I suspect that if I had 2 identical monitors it would be less significant as you can display one window across the 2 screens but as I have a laptop and a monitor I really want to size the 2 windows differently (as appropriate for each monitor). "Dave Peterson" wrote: I don't own two monitors, but try starting a second instance of excel to see if that helps. CoffeeAdict wrote: Using multiple monitors (laptop screen + monitor in my case) Word allows you to have 2 documents open - one in each monitor). This would be VERY useful in Excel when trying to compare woorksheets. -- Dave Peterson |
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With tools|options|general tab|"Ignore other applications" checked, I can click
on a shortcut to excel and a second instance will start. And be aware that turning this setting off 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 But you can always File|open within any instance of excel. === Sometimes, I'll just start a second instance by: flying window R (to see the Windows start button|Run dialog type in: excel and hit enter. CoffeeAdict wrote: Is there a way to open a truly independant instance of Excel - rather then another sub-window within the master window? This would solve this problem. As an aside - I suspect that if I had 2 identical monitors it would be less significant as you can display one window across the 2 screens but as I have a laptop and a monitor I really want to size the 2 windows differently (as appropriate for each monitor). "Dave Peterson" wrote: I don't own two monitors, but try starting a second instance of excel to see if that helps. CoffeeAdict wrote: Using multiple monitors (laptop screen + monitor in my case) Word allows you to have 2 documents open - one in each monitor). This would be VERY useful in Excel when trying to compare woorksheets. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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The following:
flying window R (to see the Windows start button|Run dialog type in: excel and hit enter is a perfect workaround. Thanks! "Dave Peterson" wrote: With tools|options|general tab|"Ignore other applications" checked, I can click on a shortcut to excel and a second instance will start. And be aware that turning this setting off 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 But you can always File|open within any instance of excel. === Sometimes, I'll just start a second instance by: flying window R (to see the Windows start button|Run dialog type in: excel and hit enter. CoffeeAdict wrote: Is there a way to open a truly independant instance of Excel - rather then another sub-window within the master window? This would solve this problem. As an aside - I suspect that if I had 2 identical monitors it would be less significant as you can display one window across the 2 screens but as I have a laptop and a monitor I really want to size the 2 windows differently (as appropriate for each monitor). "Dave Peterson" wrote: I don't own two monitors, but try starting a second instance of excel to see if that helps. CoffeeAdict wrote: Using multiple monitors (laptop screen + monitor in my case) Word allows you to have 2 documents open - one in each monitor). This would be VERY useful in Excel when trying to compare woorksheets. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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If you like Flying Windows R,
You'll love: Flying Windows E (launch windows explorer) Flying windows m (lower case m--minimize everything and get to the desktop) flying windows M (upper case M--put things back) CoffeeAdict wrote: The following: flying window R (to see the Windows start button|Run dialog type in: excel and hit enter is a perfect workaround. Thanks! "Dave Peterson" wrote: With tools|options|general tab|"Ignore other applications" checked, I can click on a shortcut to excel and a second instance will start. And be aware that turning this setting off 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 But you can always File|open within any instance of excel. === Sometimes, I'll just start a second instance by: flying window R (to see the Windows start button|Run dialog type in: excel and hit enter. CoffeeAdict wrote: Is there a way to open a truly independant instance of Excel - rather then another sub-window within the master window? This would solve this problem. As an aside - I suspect that if I had 2 identical monitors it would be less significant as you can display one window across the 2 screens but as I have a laptop and a monitor I really want to size the 2 windows differently (as appropriate for each monitor). "Dave Peterson" wrote: I don't own two monitors, but try starting a second instance of excel to see if that helps. CoffeeAdict wrote: Using multiple monitors (laptop screen + monitor in my case) Word allows you to have 2 documents open - one in each monitor). This would be VERY useful in Excel when trying to compare woorksheets. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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