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opening multiple windows at once?
Sorry -- I'm a happy Excel user on a Mac who's temporarily using a PC and
obviously not fit for prime time. I cannot for the life of me get Excel to let me open two windows at the same time with two different spreadsheets, so that I can see them both and copy freely from one to the other. When clicking on a new file on the desktop, Excel replaces my presently open window with the window to the new file, thereby denying me the opportunity to see the old one. When clicking on the old one in the task bar, you guessed it -- the new one now disappears and the old one returns. Yes, I checked Help, which told me to add a new window under the Window menu and then, when it's live, click on the file I want to open. Only one problem: when I add a new window, again, the old one disappears. Maybe there's a setting in the Windows XP operating system causing this weird behavior and it's not Excel at all? Helpl -- it would be nice to start being productive in the PC environment and stop missing the familiar Mac quite so much... |
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opening multiple windows at once?
Check your options under Window Arrange. (It may be important to open one
file then use File Open to open the second in order to have both files open with a single instance of the application). "Chris" wrote: Sorry -- I'm a happy Excel user on a Mac who's temporarily using a PC and obviously not fit for prime time. I cannot for the life of me get Excel to let me open two windows at the same time with two different spreadsheets, so that I can see them both and copy freely from one to the other. When clicking on a new file on the desktop, Excel replaces my presently open window with the window to the new file, thereby denying me the opportunity to see the old one. When clicking on the old one in the task bar, you guessed it -- the new one now disappears and the old one returns. Yes, I checked Help, which told me to add a new window under the Window menu and then, when it's live, click on the file I want to open. Only one problem: when I add a new window, again, the old one disappears. Maybe there's a setting in the Windows XP operating system causing this weird behavior and it's not Excel at all? Helpl -- it would be nice to start being productive in the PC environment and stop missing the familiar Mac quite so much... |
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opening multiple windows at once?
Ahh! arrange didn't even show under windows, but using the arrow to bring up
other options below the present list uncovered it. Now either tiled or cascaded helps at least give a prism into multiple sheets at a time. thanks... BUT... the multiple windows are now still imprisoned in a sort of mini-desktop that Excel constrains them inside... I want to be able to have one Excel window next to one Word document and another Excel window next to the window for my email account, all four being equal windows that I can move anywhere on my desktop... Any way to get individual spreadsheet windows outside the Excel mini-desktop prison?? "bpeltzer" wrote: Check your options under Window Arrange. (It may be important to open one file then use File Open to open the second in order to have both files open with a single instance of the application). "Chris" wrote: Sorry -- I'm a happy Excel user on a Mac who's temporarily using a PC and obviously not fit for prime time. I cannot for the life of me get Excel to let me open two windows at the same time with two different spreadsheets, so that I can see them both and copy freely from one to the other. When clicking on a new file on the desktop, Excel replaces my presently open window with the window to the new file, thereby denying me the opportunity to see the old one. When clicking on the old one in the task bar, you guessed it -- the new one now disappears and the old one returns. Yes, I checked Help, which told me to add a new window under the Window menu and then, when it's live, click on the file I want to open. Only one problem: when I add a new window, again, the old one disappears. Maybe there's a setting in the Windows XP operating system causing this weird behavior and it's not Excel at all? Helpl -- it would be nice to start being productive in the PC environment and stop missing the familiar Mac quite so much... |
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