Question:
Tony,
Thanks for your help setting up multiple monitors. I have been experiencing  one problem and wonder if you know the solution: are we able to open different excel windows in both monitors, ie spreadsheet 1 on monitor 1 and spreadsheet 2 on monitor 2? I have this flexibility in Word.
Thanks for your help.
Alok
Answer:
Yeah, this bugs me, too. If you open two Word documents, you get two windows. If you open two Excel documents, you get ONE window! Why can’t they be consistent within Office? It’s always been this way, even in Office 2007. Office 2007 will even show different taskbar buttons, but they both control a single window.
Anyway, here’s an easy work-around: resize the Excel window so that it covers both your monitors. If you use Ultramon, just right-click the taskbar, and then click Maximize to Desktop.
Then, tile the windows in Excel. In Excel 2007, click View, and then click View Side By Side. In earlier versions of Office, click the Window menu, and then click Tile Vertically (or whatever the command is).
What you may want to do is launch a true second copy of excel. You do this by selecting excel off the start menu (or the orb menu for vista) and hold down on the control key just as you click on the excel shortcut. I generally drag my document into that excel window to control that the document opens in the correct 2nd copy. The one disadvantage of this method is that copy and paste works only as text in that mode.
Open up excel from the run command. i.e. Go to Start >> Run.
Then type in excel and select enter. Do this agian for the second window of excell.
As long as I launch MS Excel from the “Start Menu” I can have as many different instances of the program that I want. I can have a copy of Excel 2007 running in each of my displays or I can have 4 Excel applications tiled in my single 24″ display and an additional 4 in my 22″ display. It is just a matter of launching Excel as many times as I need it from the start menu.
Using Excel 2007, you can correct the paste limitation by using the ‘Paste Special’ command and selecting XML Spreadsheet option.
I haven’t tried this in earlier versions but formulas, borders and text formattng seem to work ok.
Knox! Thanks! His suggestion was better than the authors.
Thank you very much. Nobody has suggested to cover both of monitors before. All internet says about second instances but there you can’t link formulas from one window to another but here you can!
This problem has been driving me crazy for months and I just figured out the solution today!
If you want to view multiple Excel 2007 documents in separate windows in order to drag them onto separate monitors and maintain the ability to copy and paste will all of the available options, go to the excel options and under advanced check “show all windows in the taskbar”. The same option is available for MS Word; however, the only difference is that the default option on install for MS Word is to have this option checked while it is not checked by default in MS Excel.