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Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information.

Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Submit feedback. We can quickly open the folder where Excel is installed to open a new window. If we have Excel , the name of the last folder is Office Next, we will find the Excel. We will select Create Shortcut and Send to the desktop. With this new Excel Icon , we can always open a different excel window.

Figure 4 — Excel separate windows. We can also open two Excel Windows simultaneously by using this method:. Alternatively, we can create a shortcut on our desktop that shows the Excel Executable file. We must also check to ensure that the quotation marks are there all four of them and make sure that the appropriate file name and the correct path is entered. When we wish to compare two Excel worksheets or quickly switch between two or more Excel windows, these methods can be timesaving especially when we have Excel or earlier versions.

We can always use the View Tab to enable viewing side by side or simply resize Excel windows to make swaps easier. Most of the time, the problem you will need to solve will be more complex than a simple application of a formula or function.

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Connect anytime to free, instant, live Expert help by installing the Chrome extension Add Excelchat to Chrome. That's all. Re: Open two excel windows at once This is public forum Emily not a War place So calm down If you are not satisfied with someone's answer, you may ignore that Hope it make sense I hope you get your solution you are looking for..

Re: Open two excel windows at once Just to add my 2c worth, I saw nothing rude, and saw some sad -not angry faces. For what its worth, I too, could not follow Anil's directions until they pointed out it was the windows task bar, not the excel ribbon. Then I was able to follow along easily.

In fact, if you look at post 18, Anil has "I am thinking for last more than an hour what could be any other option. Re: Open two excel windows at once OK, not sure if you have tried this or not, but here goes When you already have an excel file opened, open another, blank, instance of excel then go to file, open and select the 2nd excel file you want to open.

This works for me and I can view each window separately side by side or on 2 different monitors. Aside from editing the registry, this is the only option I have found that works. Not quite sure where I got the "holding the Shift key Btw, thank you for the rep.

Last edited by gmr4evr1; at PM. Reason: Added thank you. Originally Posted by FDibbins. Just to add my 2c worth, I saw nothing rude, and saw some sad -not angry faces. Re: Open two excel windows at once Don't worry, Adhawan, I'll remove the negative flag from your account. Emily, when people are going out of their way to spend their free time helping you as best they can, you will do well to force yourself to stay gracious at all times, that works best for all of us.

That way, when you perceive a negative feeling, you either a ignore it because the rudeness is not really there b ignore it because it may be there but is couched in a sincere attempt by someone who does not know you in any way and is still trying to help So, in short, use the Add Rep function for positive feedback. Tip of the day. Last edited by JBeaucaire; at AM. Always put your code between code tags. Re: Open two excel windows at once Thanks Jerry for looking into this matter and removing negative flag.

Regards, Anil. Re: Open two excel windows at once Thanks for the assist, Jerry. Replies: 3 Last Post: , PM. Replies: 1 Last Post: , PM. Open email windows can't open, excel shreadsheet file. By skiz in forum Excel General.