After over 2 years of using MS Office 2007 and now 2010 (a couple months), I have become really frustrated with Excel opening in the same instance, especially when I now have two excellent monitors.
This single instance “feature” was implemented in Office 2007 to save memory, and is a great feature if you are working on alike notebooks, but bloody pointless when you have two monitors and 4GB of RAM and 4 CPU’s in your work PC!
But I now have a solution!
This fix works by adding certain keys into your registry.
It will not only allow you to double-click on an icon and have it open in a separate window, but also adds a neat little Right Click dialog that reads “Open in New Excel Instance”, when you right click an excel file.
Pop over here and download the zip file
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Office_Suites/MS_Office/Excel/A_1007-Option-to-open-excel-2007-documents-in-a-new-instance.html
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Steve |
Thanks, I’ve been racking my brains over this problem.
Dthemniree |
Awesome