Opening New Workbook separately

[bhussey]

My excel did this but a couple days ago it changed for some reason. When
a new workbook was opened it would open a entire new excel session. Now
the workbook opens within the same session. It's drives me nuts, can
someone help me get it back to the way it once was?

 

[Dave Peterson]

How did you open that new workbook--by double clicking in windows explorer???

Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

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.