Windows in Taskbar

[Guest]

This may be an Excel problem rather than an XP issue, but no one in the Excel
User Groups has been able to figure it out, so ...

I have recently upgraded from Office 2000 to Office 2003. (I am running XP
Pro SP2.)

When I open Excel, if I go to Tools>Options>View the box for Windows in
Taskbar is already checked. However, if I open multiple Excel files, they do
not show in the taskbar.

While the multiple files are open, if I uncheck Windows in Taskbar, and tell
it OK to close the dialogue box, nothing changes as you would expect. If I
then immediately reopen Tools>Options>View, check the Windows in Taskbar
button, and tell it OK to close the dialogue box, all the open files appear
in the Taskbar.

The problem though is when I shut down or logoff the computer. When I reboot
or logon the next morning I have the same scenario from above. It seems as
though something in XP is overriding the Excel command. (I didn't have this
problem in Office 2000.)

Can anyone help! Thanks for any ideas.

 

[Brian A.]

One possibility. Right click the Taskbar, click Properties, uncheck
Group Similar Taskbar buttons, click Apply > Ok.

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[Guest]

Thanks Brian for the response.

Unfortunately, I've already tried that. When I uncheck the Group Similar
button, all it does is give me 30 little icons in the taskbar that are
unreadable. AND, I still have to go through the exercise in Excel of
Unchecking "Windows in Taskbar", and then checking "WIndows in Taskbar" to
have them show up.

What should happen (as it did with Excel 2000), is I have one Excel button
in the Taskbar that says Excel - xx (where xx is the number of open files). I
know that Excel 2003 can do it, because that is the result I get when I
uncheck and then check the Windows in Taskbar.

But for some reason, I have to do that everytime I log on or boot up the
computer. So I'm convinced that something is overriding the command, or not
remembering the settings. However, every time I bootup and open Excel, the
Windows in Taskbar button is still checked.

This is really exasperating.

Thanks again if anyone has any more ideas.