Re: Excel 2000 Workbooks Hidden

From: Rob Graham (robgrahamteeth_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 04/30/04


Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:36:16 +0100


"Eileen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:655f01c42e80$edb0b910$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> One PC I've got is hiding the multiple excel workbooks.
> When I open multiple Word documents, Win XP organises the
> taskbar to have one word icon that you click and it shows
> multiple documents. However, in Excel it only shows Excel
> once in the taskbar and doesn't indicate there are
> multiple workbooks open. When I Alt+Tab, it only shows
> one excel workbook, not multiple like it does with word.
> The only way I can switch between the open workbooks is to
> use the Window menu in Excel.
> Is this a known problem? Is there a setting that controls
> this? All other XP machines work fine, it's only happened
> to one of them.

Start>Settings>Taskbar & Start Menu> then uncheck Group Similar Items
Together. If I've understood you correctly this should solve the problem.

Rob Graham



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