Multiple Instances - troubleshooting

[Guest]

I read the earlier post regarding multiple instances of Excel, the problem
that I have encountered is that if I tick the option to ignore other
applications, and then open a spreadsheet from explorer or an email, my excel
opens but does not display any spreadsheet, just a blank instance, and I get
no error messages.

I had a look in the knowledge base and the fix they supply for this is to
uncheck the ignore other applications box.

There must be some way that I can force excel to launch in a new instance.

Please can someone help me?

I'm running excel 2002 with SP3.

Many Thanks in Advance for your help.

Michelle

 

[Dave Peterson]

From reading posts about the problems with double clicking on files with "ignore
other applications" checked, it sure sounds like the easiest solution is to
start as many instances of excel as you need, then do File|open in the instance
you want.

I've noticed that problem seems to occur when I have spaces in the
folder/filename. If you can avoid those pesky spaces, maybe it'll work ok for
you.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Dave, it looks like that's going to be the only way of doing it, I've
tried a few, and even without spaces in the filename, and launched from the
root directory, I have had no joy.

Thanks very much for getting back to me.

Reagrds

Michelle