Opening multiple files separately

[pjyelton]

When opening multiple excel files they used to all open in separate
versions of Excel which was great because then I could easily Alt-Tab
between them. Now all of a sudden when ever I open new excel files by
double clicking the name they open in the same Excel program but as a
separate window. This is a real pain because it's hard to cycle
through them and they keep minimizing whenever I maximize another one.

I haven't changed any settings that I know of, is there a way to get
each file to open separately again?

 

[Dave Peterson]

You sure you just didn't have:

Tools|options|View|Windows in taskbar checked.

(It's only one instance of excel, but you can have multiple icons on the windows
taskbar.)

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

pjyelton,

You can use Ctrl-Tab to cycle through them, or in later version of Excel,
Tools - Options - View - Windows in Taskbar.

 

[pjyelton]

Thanks, that worked! I never unchecked that option, but our work did a
lot of updates on these computers so maybe somehow it got unchecked
that way.

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Pjyelton replied to my reply, but "Message is longer on the server." Anyone
else see his reply? Others have seen similar things going in in the
newsgroups lately.

 

[Dave Peterson]

It's there this morning (morning for me):

Thanks, that worked! I never unchecked that option, but our work did a
lot of updates on these computers so maybe somehow it got unchecked
that way.

Sometimes if you disconnect from the server (I close my newsreader) and then
wait a bit, then retry, it'll show up.