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Old September 18th, 2003, 05:11 PM
Carolyn
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Default Multiple Instances of Excel opening

When I open 2 Excel spreadsheets a new instance of Excel
opens. How do I configure Excel to open multiple Excel
Documents in one instance of Excel?
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Old September 19th, 2003, 02:13 AM
Dave Peterson
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Default Multiple Instances of Excel opening

Are you sure that they're two instances of excel. In xl2k and higher, you can
set an option to show each window/workbook as a separate icon on your taskbar.

Tools|options|view|windows in taskbar.

But if it really is two separate instances, one of these sometimes work:

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

An alternative might be to do:
Try Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

Carolyn wrote:

When I open 2 Excel spreadsheets a new instance of Excel
opens. How do I configure Excel to open multiple Excel
Documents in one instance of Excel?


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