Comments on: Open Excel on Multiple Monitors

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:00:23 +0000

Jason nailed it!

Thanks

By: Tebo

Tebo — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:53:41 +0000

Thanks! It worked, nice and easy.

By: dante4d

dante4d — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:04:55 +0000

This just shows how shit anything M$ makes is. Let’s all use alternative software and we’ll be happy.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:27:56 +0000

I think this is a better solution:

http://bitterminion.com/excel-instance-launcher/

By: Martin Seraphim

Martin Seraphim — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:05:06 +0000

Follow this link: This is probably the best solution on the internet and works briliantly.

http://brett.batie.com/microsoft/open-excel-in-multiple-windows/

Microsoft should really fix this issue!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:22:44 +0000

Jason’s method worked for me

By: DanielG

DanielG — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:08:58 +0000

Currently, you can not get to advanced settings for Windows 7. “Default programs” in control panel lets you view the extensions (ie xls, xlsx, etc.) but as of now, no editing is possible to the file path.

The method of “Danny Boy” is useful only in XP or earlier. For Vista/7 it’s a no go.

-Daniel

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:31:41 +0000

Hi DannyBoy,
I’ve done your method before. But for some reason it has changed and I don’t get the option to click advanced after choosing program to open XLS files with.
I can only restore it and it goes back to Viewer by default…
Any ideas?

By: DannyBoy

DannyBoy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:37:30 +0000

Start separate instances of Excel first, then open your documents from within
each respective instance.

However, if you really want to be able to open the files in separate
instances from Windows Explorer (doesn’t work with desktop icons though),
then follow these steps:

Open Windows Explorer
Select “Tools”
Select “Folder Options”
Select the “File Types” Tab
Scroll down to find and select the XLS extension
Click the “Advanced” Button
Select the “Open” action from the list
Click the “Edit…” Button
Where is says “Application used to perform action:”
If not already there, add:

/e “%1″

to the end of the file path
Uncheck the “Use DDE” box
Click OK
Click OK
Click Close

By: jason

jason — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:49:43 +0000

Patty is close… You should check the box that says “Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)”

By: Ginny Hench

Ginny Hench — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:19:21 +0000

Is there a way to do this with Wordperfect?

By: emma

emma — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:46:28 +0000

pattie
i have that box ticked and still cannot have two workbooks – one on each monitor :(
Emma

By: Pattie

Pattie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:03:58 +0000

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.

By: Sergey Gorbikov

Sergey Gorbikov — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:00:15 +0000

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!

By: jwc

jwc — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:57:58 +0000

Knox! Thanks! His suggestion was better than the authors.

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:36:43 +0000

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.

By: cgarison

cgarison — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:24:29 +0000

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.

By: Goldberg

Goldberg — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:31:18 +0000

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.

By: Knox

Knox — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:15:23 +0000

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.