How to opening a new file in a new excel program

[Per]

When I look at a excel file in excel and want to open another excel
file, it starts up in the same excel program that I am running.
I would like to start it in another excel program (so I can switch with
Tab+Alt).

Is this posible without starting Excel manualy (from the meny)?

I am using Microsft Excel 2000.

 

[Jim]

Shift+Alt+Tab allows you to tab between all open programs, including all
open XL files.

 

[Jim Rech]

(so I can switch with Tab+Alt).

Well, if you just Ctrl-Tab instead you can easily switch between the
workbooks in the one instance of Excel.

But if you truly want to muck with how Excel files are opened by Windows you
have to go into your file associations in Windows Explorer (Tools, Folder
Options) and for the Open action on XLS files you have to remove the Use DDE
option and put a %1 on the end of the Excel command line (after the /e).

 

[Guest]

Go to Tools>Options>View in Excel. Under "Show" there should be an option to "Show Workbooks in Taskbar". I may have the wording wrong because the machine I'm working on has Excel 97 which doesn't have this feature. You computer should then show all open workbooks on the bottom of your screen, and allow you to alt-tab through them.

Good Luck,
Mark Graesser
(e-mail address removed)

----- Per wrote: -----

When I look at a excel file in excel and want to open another excel
file, it starts up in the same excel program that I am running.
I would like to start it in another excel program (so I can switch with
Tab+Alt).

Is this posible without starting Excel manualy (from the meny)?

I am using Microsft Excel 2000.