Open only one instance of Excel - 2003

Hi All

I recently upgraded to Excel 2003 and have discovered much to my irritation that every time you open a new document, a new instance of Excel is opened. I should imagine that this hijacks a lot of the system resources? Is there a setting that I can change to stop this?

I just want only one instance and I've searched on the net, but have found nothing.

Kind Regards

Normally Excel uses an open instance of Excel, if any, to launch a workbook,
so something has monkeyed with your settings. Try executing "Excel.exe
/regserver" from Start->Run (no quotes, there is a space before the slash)
to reset them.

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| Hi All
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| I recently upgraded to Excel 2003 and have discovered much to my
| irritation that every time you open a new document, a new instance of
| Excel is opened. I should imagine that this hijacks a lot of the system
| resources? Is there a setting that I can change to stop this?
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|
| I just want only one instance and I've searched on the net, but have
| found nothing.
|
| Kind Regards
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Are either of these options checked in Tools > Options

General: Ignore Remote Requests

View: Windows in Taskbar (gives the impression of multiple instances)

Regards,
Peter T


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> Hi All
>
> I recently upgraded to Excel 2003 and have discovered much to my
> irritation that every time you open a new document, a new instance of
> Excel is opened. I should imagine that this hijacks a lot of the system
> resources? Is there a setting that I can change to stop this?
>
>
> I just want only one instance and I've searched on the net, but have
> found nothing.
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
> --
> poppy
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Hi Guys

Thanks for all your help. My problem has been solved.

Kind Regards

Great, how?

Regards,
Peter T

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> Hi Guys
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> Thanks for all your help. My problem has been solved.
>
> Kind Regards
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Hi Peter

I couldn't try out Jim's suggestion because I'm not allowed to fiddle with anything to do with the registry or anything with servers in it. I might make a booboo I asked one of our technical guys to try it out, but he never got back to me.

I tried your suggestion though, I deselected this view.
View: Windows in Taskbar

Thanks to you both.

Kind Regards

Hi Poppy,

Thanks for the follow-up. From memory I think "Windows in Taskbar" is the
default setup. This gives the impression of multiple instances, but it
isn't!

Regards,
Peter T

"poppy" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi Peter
>
> I couldn't try out Jim's suggestion because I'm not allowed to fiddle
> with anything to do with the registry or anything with servers in it. I
> might make a booboo I asked one of our technical guys to try it out,
> but he never got back to me.
>
> I tried your suggestion though, I deselected this view.
> View: Windows in Taskbar
>
> Thanks to you both.
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
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> poppy
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> poppy's Profile:
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