Grouping Files In Taskbar

**SamuelT** · 07-24-2006, 09:02 AM

Hi all,

This may be an XP question - if so, apologies. Here goes anyhow:

For some reason Excel has stopped grouping my open spreadsheets in the Windows taskbar (or displaying more than one when there's room). I now simply get the one generic 'Microsoft Excel' item, and have to go to the 'Window' option in Excel to look at other open workbooks.

Obviously not life-threatening, but kind of annoying when I've got five or six documents open. Can anyone suggest how I can get Excel/XP to group the lot in the taskbar - it was much easier to access the documents that way.

Oh, and I've checked that 'group similar taskbar buttons' is checked in 'Taskbar and Start Menu Properties'.

TIA,

SamuelT

Zone · 07-24-2006, 10:25 AM

In Excel, click on Tools, then Options. On the View tab, make sure
Windows in Taskbar is checked. James
SamuelT wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This may be an XP question - if so, apologies. Here goes anyhow:
>
> For some reason Excel has stopped grouping my open spreadsheets in the
> Windows taskbar (or displaying more than one when there's room). I now
> simply get the one generic 'Microsoft Excel' item, and have to go to
> the 'Window' option in Excel to look at other open workbooks.
>
> Obviously not life-threatening, but kind of annoying when I've got five
> or six documents open. Can anyone suggest how I can get Excel/XP to
> group the lot in the taskbar - it was much easier to access the
> documents that way.
>
> TIA,
>
> SamuelT
>
>
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