can't open new worksheets in a separate window

I've been trying to open multiple wookbooks in Excel, but they won't open in
a new window. Instead they continue to open in the same window - one on top
of the other. I've tried playing around with the maximize and restore, but
to no avail. I tried right clicking on the Excel button in the taskbar to
cascade the windows, but the pop-up menu is inactive. any advice would be
greatly appreciated.

Running Excel 2003, Windows XP.

This might be it:

Tools - Options - View tab - Show: Windows in taskbar.

Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com

"3R's" <3R'[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I've been trying to open multiple wookbooks in Excel, but they won't open
> in
> a new window. Instead they continue to open in the same window - one on
> top
> of the other. I've tried playing around with the maximize and restore,
> but
> to no avail. I tried right clicking on the Excel button in the taskbar to
> cascade the windows, but the pop-up menu is inactive. any advice would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Running Excel 2003, Windows XP.

If you want a single instance of excel with multiple occurrences in the windows
taskbar.

Tools|Options|View tab|check windows in taskbar.

3R's wrote:
>
> I've been trying to open multiple wookbooks in Excel, but they won't open in
> a new window. Instead they continue to open in the same window - one on top
> of the other. I've tried playing around with the maximize and restore, but
> to no avail. I tried right clicking on the Excel button in the taskbar to
> cascade the windows, but the pop-up menu is inactive. any advice would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Running Excel 2003, Windows XP.

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Dave Peterson