If you go to the task bar (at the bottom of the screen) once you have opened
the 2 instances of EXCEL you will see them both in the task bar (one instance
will be slightly to the right of the first one).

Please hit yes if my comments have helped.

Thanks.

"Roger" wrote:

I have two different workbooks I would like to view at the same time. I would
also like to copy & paste cels from one spreadsheet to the other.

Under Winxp and earlier I could have two instances of Excel open at the same
time. Win-7 seems to prevent this.

The answers previously given do not apply to Win-7 as I cannot find the
options such as TOOLS so I can make changes.