Excel with separate windows like Word

[Brian P. Evans]

If you have two spreadsheets open in Excel, they're child windows of the same
parent window. This means the only way to view the two spreadsheets
side-by-side is to tile them in the main Excel window. If you have two
monitors, this defeats the purpose of having two since maximizing the Excel
window only maximizes it to a single monitor.

Word, on the other hand, opens each document in its own window. If you want
to compare two documents side by side on two monitors, you just put each
window in its own monitor and expand them. Yes, I know all I have to do is
launch a new instance of Excel and open up the new spreadsheet in the new
instance, but I shouldn't have to do that. Word doesn't make me do that.
Every document is opened in its own window.

Suggestion to Microsoft: Please make Excel function like Word when it comes
to documents being in their own window.

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[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

No need for your suggestion. In Excel, click on Tools | Options
| View | check the "Windows in Taskbar" box | OK.

 

[Josh SD]

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The "Windows in Taskbar" box does not make them open in separate parent
windows. It only gives you separate boxes in the task bar. You still cannot
put spreadsheets on separate monitors without going through the tedious task
of opening a new instance of Excel and opening the file from within Excel,
and if you are trying to open a file on SharePoint... forget it.

To me this is in the top 3 most frustrating things Microsoft has ever done.
(Let me be clear, I am still a HUGE Microsoft fan.) I really do not
understand why in the world they would build office this way. Why would you
make it work as expected for Word, but not for Excel? It is almost as if you
wanted people to know that you did it intentionally.