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How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7



 
 
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Old December 24th, 2009, 07:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Roger
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Default How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7

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.
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Old December 24th, 2009, 07:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
trip_to_tokyo[_3_]
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Default How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7

Hi Roger, you can have 2 instances of EXCEL running under Windows 7: I have
just tested it and it works OK and you can do exactly what you want to do.

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.

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Old December 24th, 2009, 08:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
trip_to_tokyo[_3_]
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Default How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7

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.

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Old December 24th, 2009, 08:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
trip_to_tokyo[_3_]
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Default How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7

You might like to look at the brief video:-

http://www.pcw.co.uk/computeractive/...ows-first-look



"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.

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Old December 24th, 2009, 08:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Gord Dibben
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Default How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7

Just curious about "do exactly what you want to do"

In earlier version when you had two instances of Excel running you could not
copy and paste formulas from one instance to the other.

Are you saying you now do this with Windows 7?

I would have thought the copy/paste would be Excel dependent, not OS
dependent.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP



On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:57:02 -0800, trip_to_tokyo
wrote:

Hi Roger, you can have 2 instances of EXCEL running under Windows 7: I have
just tested it and it works OK and you can do exactly what you want to do.

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.


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Old December 25th, 2009, 08:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Gary Keramidas
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Default How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7

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.


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Old December 26th, 2009, 05:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
TopQuark
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Default How to open Two copies of Excel under Win7

THIS is is the correct response. One can also set the task bar such that
the open applications are not stacked up under the icon that launches them.
In other words, one can set it up to appear on the task bar in the
'classical' 'legacy' manner, where each open application uses up a task bar
area of its own. I like it stacked, and once the paradigm is learned and
familiar, it is quite intuitive and practical.

"Gary Keramidas" wrote:

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
...
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.


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