Repost: open multiple instances of Excel

[Dale Fye]

About a week ago (8/6/08), I asked how to configure Excel to open multiple
instances. Jim Rech responded, pointing me to the checkbox I needed to check
in the Excel options to enable this. OK, that works fine.

However, if I have Excel open and double click on an Excel file in a folder,
on my desktop, or in an email, it will open Excel, but will not open the
file. I have to go into that new instance of Excel, click the Office - Open
menu item and select the file I want to open.

Is this functionality designed that way, is this a bug, or am I missing
something I don't know about Excel 2007?

 

[Bob I]

It's been my experience you need to open additional files from the Open
File dialog.

 

[Dale Fye]

That's what I was afraid of. I'm using Office 2007, and don't remember
having this problem with 2003.

When I tested further, I realized that this problem exists even when an
instance of Excel is not already open. So, whenever I double click on an
Excel file, whether an instance is already open or not, I either get an empty
copy of Excel (when clicking on an item in a folder or on my desktop), or an
empty copy of Excel with the Microsoft Outlook error message: The system
cannot find the file specified (when clicking on an outlook attachment).

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HTH
Dale

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