Comments on: How to make Excel open each file in a separate window. Tip #198

By: Meysam

Meysam — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:04:06 +0000

In reply to —.

That was AEWSOME buddy
Thanks a million it wrkes nicely oh im soooooo happy

By: Ally B

Ally B — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:03:00 +0000

In reply to viperccp. Or indeed just open the first Excel instance, then to open another Excel instance just shift-click on the task bar icon that the first one put there. Works for any application.

By: Setting to open files in new instance of excel?

Setting to open files in new instance of excel? — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:14:27 +0000

[…] Originally Posted by datanewb I would really like excel to open files in a new instance of excel by default. Currently the only way I can do this is by starting excel and then File->Open. While this is only a little bit of extra effort, I've recently gotten in the habit of opening and closing 100s csv files daily and the wasted time really adds up. I've read several threads here, but mostly found people trying to accomplish the opposite of what I am. Thank you for any help. How to make Excel open each file in a separate window. Tip #198 […]

By: viperccp

viperccp — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:03:43 +0000

It is worth noting that Windows 7 has made this process unnecessary (and apparently VIsta as well from a previous comment). To quickly open a separate Excel window in Windows 7, I do the following:

1. Pin Excel to your task bar (located at the bottom of your screen by default)
2. Open up a document in Excel
3. Right-Click on the Excel icon in the task bar
4. In the pop-up menu, click on “Microsoft Excel 2010”

DONE! You have just opened a NEW instance of Excel in a SEPERATE window! Now you can navigate to a document (or use your recent files list) using the new window.

Best wishes,
Charles Peri

By: viperccp

viperccp — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:51:19 +0000

In reply to Mike Temp.

@Mike Temp Hi Mike,
Unfortunately I am no longer using XP (using Windows 7 now) to test my following suggestion, however it should be fairly easy to undo what was done in the tutorial:

1.      In Windows Explorer, go to Tools > Folder Options > File Types
2.      Scroll down to the XLS extension and click [Advanced]
3.      Click on the action “Open in &New Window” in the list to highlight it and then click [Delete]
4.    Rinse and Repeat (from step 2) for XLSX, XLSM and CSV extensions
UN-DONE! 🙂

This should remove the “Open in &New Window” option that you had added (for each extension you might have added it to) and everything should work like normal again.

Best Wishes,
Charles Peri

By: Mike Temp

Mike Temp — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:48:03 +0000

Hi Charles Peri,
Help ! Please send me instructions of how to Un-Do this excel tip #198, I am on Win XP —
The excel files are too hard to manage now, and I need to un-do this.
Thanks, with best wishes, Mike

By: aa aa

aa aa — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:06:20 +0000

In reply to ---. Thank you very much. worked here win7 64bit, office 2010

By: deletemp

deletemp — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:55:30 +0000

In reply to perivision.

Dont work on windows 7 32 bit 🙁 On XP this works as this tutorial say.
I still not have luck find solution for 7.

Memory now is no problem a and for taskbar on multimonitor you need 3rd party software like ultramon.

Wish that MS do much more work on support multimonitor. Is stupid that need still looking on web and installing 3rd party software.

By: ---

--- — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:41:55 +0000

You have two xls files, open one of them.
Then go to the 'Start Menu' open a new (blank workbook) from there.
Go to 'file' on the blank workbook and navigate to the second xls workbook and open it.
Result, two open seperate workbook windows.
Excel 2010, Vista

By: natsuki

natsuki — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:09:29 +0000

Great idea and thanks for sharing! adding an 'open in new window' to the right click menu gives me the option to cleanly do exactly what I wanted. Using excel 2010 in win XP.