Re: Dual monitor support for multiple spreadsheets

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From: Harlan Grove (hrlngrv_at_aol.com)
Date: 03/12/04


Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:45:35 GMT


"Kerry" wrote...
>Does anyone know if excel 2002 supports opening two
>separate excel spreadsheets - one on each monitor?
>
>If so, how would you accomplish this?

The OS would need to support dual monitors first. Do you know for sure that your
system supports dual monitors at all?

Next, each instance of Excel shows all its document windows inside Excel's
single application window. If your system supports multiple monitors, you should
be able to two separate Excel instances running with their application windows
appearing on separate monitors. The only way you could have a single Excel
instance showing separate document windows on different monitors would require
that Excel's application window span both monitors, with separate document
windows in each for the separate files. This would also mean that only one
monitor would show the Excel menu bar. Awkward at best.

So, to the extent I believe a single Excel instance won't display multiple
application windows, it's unlikely you can do this with a single Excel instance.
With multiple Excel instances it should be possible, but at that point it
becomes a question of whether your system supports it.

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