How to close active Workbook without closing other open workbooks?

[Guest]

Not sure how this developed. I have Excel 10(?) from Office XP. I have more
than one Workbook opened and then want to close one Workbook and continue
working with the other opened workbooks. But I close one Workbook and all the
Workbooks close at once. Does anyone know how to separate them from all
closing at once? Or, have I unknowingly changed something to my
"Book1.xls"/original at some point? If so, how do I correct that?
Many thanks!
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[Dave Peterson]

If you have tools|options|view tab|windows in taskbar checked, then maybe you
assumed that Excel and Word worked similarly.

In excel, if you click on that top right hand corner X to close the application,
you're closing the application!

In Word, you're just closing that document (and the other windows stay open).

I've turned off windows in taskbar and it's made life easier (I use ctrl-tab to
cycle between open workbooks).

Or you could eschew closing the file/application and use File|Close to close
just that one workbook.

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Ps. When you closed the application, you should have been prompted if you had
any changes since your last save. (But's it's easy to just keep clicking no/yes
when you see this.)