Open Each Excel File in Its Own Window

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to open Excel workbooks in separated
windows. MS Word behaves that way by default. I'm using Office 2000 on
Windows XP Pro.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
SBH

Try Tools>Options>View and check the Windows In Taskbar option.

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HTH

RP
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"SBH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to open Excel workbooks in separated
> windows. MS Word behaves that way by default. I'm using Office 2000 on
> Windows XP Pro.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> SBH
>

Thanks Bob. The setting you suggested does give me an individual tab
for each Excel file opened. But it seems all the files still reside in
the same window. In MS Word, each file opened has its own window, and
each window has its own menu (File, Edit, View ...)

I guess I should have make myself more clear. I have a laptop with an
external monitor. What I'm trying to do is to open two Excel file
side-by-side with one displayed on the external monitor and the other
one on my laptop screen. One option is to tile the two workbooks
horizontally across the two displays. Problem is, my external monitor
is much larger and has much higher resolution than my laptop screen.
So display then in the same window just look odd. That's why I'm
hoping there's a way to have two independent windows on the two
displays.


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:24:24 -0000, "Bob Phillips"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Try Tools>Options>View and check the Windows In Taskbar option.

Then could you not just start another instance of Excel, and open the second
document in that? You might Read-Only messages if you have a Personal.xls,
but you can just click through these.

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HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"SBH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks Bob. The setting you suggested does give me an individual tab
> for each Excel file opened. But it seems all the files still reside in
> the same window. In MS Word, each file opened has its own window, and
> each window has its own menu (File, Edit, View ...)
>
> I guess I should have make myself more clear. I have a laptop with an
> external monitor. What I'm trying to do is to open two Excel file
> side-by-side with one displayed on the external monitor and the other
> one on my laptop screen. One option is to tile the two workbooks
> horizontally across the two displays. Problem is, my external monitor
> is much larger and has much higher resolution than my laptop screen.
> So display then in the same window just look odd. That's why I'm
> hoping there's a way to have two independent windows on the two
> displays.
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:24:24 -0000, "Bob Phillips"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Try Tools>Options>View and check the Windows In Taskbar option.
>

Thanks Bob. That indeed works! I guess I always open files by
double-clicking them and they always end up being in the same window.
It never occured to me that I can just open another instance of Excel.
Thanks again. ^u^

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:53:06 -0000, "Bob Phillips"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Then could you not just start another instance of Excel, and open the second
>document in that? You might Read-Only messages if you have a Personal.xls,
>but you can just click through these.