Why Does Excel Do This ??!!??

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Dan

Open a new instance of Excel and type a few characters into any cell.
Then, open an Excel file attachment from an Outlook message. From
this (attachment) book, click the top right (application close) 'X'.
Why does Excel try to close the first book in this same action ? In
the heat of a busy day it's very easy to confuse the 'Save Changes'
file dialog that appears as applying to the current (attachment)
notebook, and, especially if it's a book that's unimportant, quickly
click no and lose the original workbook. Word doesn't do this -
closing an attachment only closes that document, not any other open
ones. Is this a bug or something MSFT did purposefully in Excel ? If
it's purposeful, can I somehow disable this fuctionality ? Thanks
all.

Dan
 
Just the way it is, and yes it is different to word. By clicking the X you are referring to you
will actually close Excel the Application, and not just whatever happens to be the active document
as in Word. To do what you want you must use the X that is at the top right of the worksheet, and
is below left of the Application X. This will close just that workbook and leave the rest alone.
 
Thanks Ken, but it's inconsistent with the behavior seen when both
instances of Excel are opened 'regularly', i.e. Start -> Programs ->
Microsoft Excel. When you start the application twice this way there
is no attempt by one to close the other -- it's only when one is
opened as an attachment that it occurs. It seems to me that this is a
bug, and if it's not then it's a very poor design component to have
one instance of an application attempt to close another when the two
have been opened completely separately.

Dan
 
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