Excel Instances

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My coworker is having a hard time getting more than one workbook to open in a
single instance of Excel. It seems that no matter how we try to open the
second workbook, a new instance of Excel is opened.

"Ignore other applications" is not selected in Tools - Options.

For kicks I tried selecting that as an option and it made no difference.
Excel continued to open a new instance with every new file.

Any suggestions?
 
you COULD open workbook2 from File/Open, rather than double-clicking in
windows explorer.
 
maybe...

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.
 
What makes you think there are two instances? Two Excel icon on the taskbar
does not necessarily mean you have two instances - see Tools|Options;open
View tab;check if 'Windows in Taskbar' is checked. This is a handy way of
going from one book to another,
best wishes
 
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