Comments on: How to open a new instance of Excel 2007 workbooks

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:41:23 +0000

Any way to make clicking on a Recent Document in Excel open in a new window too?

By: cASSIE

cASSIE — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:40:56 +0000

I clicked on the download for the zip and then clicked on the text file. I don’t know what to do with it nor can i save it as a .reg file.

By: Jose

Jose — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:34:49 +0000

Assuming that the file extensions haven’t changed from Excel 2007 to Excel 2010, this will work with both versions.

bitterminion.com/excel-instance-launcher/

By: Asonia

Asonia — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:46:18 +0000

Will it work for Excel 2010 as well? I’m running Windows 7 64-bit with Office 2010 32-bit.

Thanks for any answer.

By: David

David — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:14:54 +0000

After multiple hours of trying to find how to make this work, my hats off to you for the zip files! Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s working like a top! A simple change, Program Files to Program Files (x86), and it works great!

By: gaurav

gaurav — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:09:30 +0000

Awesome.. thanks a lot.

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:55:35 +0000

Can you do the same for csv files?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:16:07 +0000

will this work with Excel 2010?

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:32:02 +0000

Great. Exactly what I’m looking for. Is it possible to do the same thing for Powerpoint? What a shame for Microsoft trying to be smart! It should be an option for all office product!!!

By: Don

Don — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:01:39 +0000

Awesome!! Thank You

By: Duncs

Duncs — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:09:42 +0000

Just for everyone’s info: The primary reason that excel has workbooks that open in the same instance is to ensure fluidity of formulas between workbooks. i.e. if you want to select an area (or cell) of data from one file to another, having it open in the same instance of Excel means you can select data from one file into another easily. This is most useful for formulas such as VLOOKUP or MATCH etc…

Just worth considering…

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:27:08 +0000

Thanks!!! Worked great….Why isn’t this a standard feature of all Office products….

By: marv

marv — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:40:45 +0000

I also wanted to be able to open different files as separate instances (windows) of Excel, but they were only opening within the one Excel window I already had open.

After trawling the net, I found the following 4 ideas that worked easiest for me:

1) in Excel menu, Tools->Options->General tab Check the Ignore other applications box.

2) open another excel from a shortcut. drag in the desired file.

3) right click on desired file and select New. (this takes a long time on my pc for some strange reason)

4) add Excel to SendTo menu and then right click on desired file and select SendTo -> Excel

By: Crae

Crae — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:03:35 +0000

This feature of Excel has annoyed me for such a long time! Thanks so much for fixing it!

By: Jacques

Jacques — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:08:57 +0000

Brilliant. Just ran the registry change into Vista Business 64 after changing PF to PF (86) and it works. Thank you!