separate windows in excel 2007

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in older excel versions I could literally have two instances of excel running
and could open an xls in each instance which made it easier to see the data I
need.

Can't seem to do it in 2007 (Even though Word still does it).

I edited some stuff in the ADVANCED area of FILE TYPES after googling the
problem, but to no avail.

Please help :)
 
I edited some stuff in the ADVANCED area of FILE TYPES after googling the
problem, but to no avail.

That is the answer though. Go into file types again and find each extension
you want to modify, XLSX, XLSM, etc. In Advanced and Open uncheck Use DDE.
And then add a space and a %1 after the /e on the command line. This will
made Windows open a new Excel instance with each file loaded by
double-clicking it.

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Jim
| in older excel versions I could literally have two instances of excel
running
| and could open an xls in each instance which made it easier to see the
data I
| need.
|
| Can't seem to do it in 2007 (Even though Word still does it).
|
| I edited some stuff in the ADVANCED area of FILE TYPES after googling the
| problem, but to no avail.
|
| Please help :)
 
Jim Rech said:
That is the answer though. Go into file types again and find each extension
you want to modify, XLSX, XLSM, etc. In Advanced and Open uncheck Use DDE.
And then add a space and a %1 after the /e on the command line. This will
made Windows open a new Excel instance with each file loaded by
double-clicking it.
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Harummm.. you may be right.. i did it to xls and xlsx, but I did not do it
to .csv which is the file I was trying to open. I'll do it to all the files
and report back

WHy not just make it an easy checkbox in the freakin' options?? :)
 
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