i have it pinned to the taskbar. if i click it once, an instance opens. if i
then right click and choose microsoft excel from the menu, another instance
opens.

-- or, you can just hold the shift key when you click the taskbar icon and
another instance will open.



Gary Keramidas
Excel 2003


"Roger" wrote in message
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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.