Excel & Windows In Taskbar Issue

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Paul - 27 Apr 2004 08:31 GMT

Hi, I've been using Excel 2003 for a while now, and just
recently it has stopped opening new workbooks or other
spreadsheets in the taskbar and thus I can't ALT+TAB
between them :(

Under Tools|Options|View-> "Windows In Taskbar" is
selected.

The wookbooks and spreadsheets are viewable under
the "Window" menu, but no ALT+Tab or taskbar switching.

Excel did this to me a while back, but after re-
installing Windows XP and Office 2003 it fixed it, but I
don't want to go down that path again!

Can anyone provide any advice here?

Please email (remove the spaces) paul @ nds-it . com.

Any help would be greatly appreciated ;)

Regards,
Paul.

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Dave Peterson - 28 Apr 2004 02:25 GMT

You can't hide!

Try ctrl-tab. It'll work with or without windows in taskbar being set.

> Hi, I've been using Excel 2003 for a while now, and just
> recently it has stopped opening new workbooks or other
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> Regards,
> Paul.

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Paul - 29 Apr 2004 08:11 GMT

Thanks Dave, that is what I've been doing for now, but it
is not natural for me to do it. I use ALT+TAB for all
other apps.

I forgot to mention that MS Word still works with the
windows in taskbar! Do you know of a registry setting or
where Excel stores this information for "Windows in
Taskbar"?

It was all working fine until a week ago, maybe something
to do with an office update that could have been
installed.

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>You can't hide!
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>> Regards,
>> Paul.

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Dave Peterson - 30 Apr 2004 02:33 GMT

Word and excel are similar, but different--so differences like this don't
surprise me. (Every version they seem to get closer with the user interface
stuff, though.)

In xl2002:
hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\office\10.0\excel\options
(change 10.0 to 11.0 for xl2003????)

There's an key for showwindowsintaskbar
I see a 1 (one) if it's turned on a 0 (zero) elsewise.

There was a bug in xl2k that broke this with shared workbooks.

this was one work-around (xl2k, though. I didn't think it would be necessary in
xl2003):
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3FFB52FF.3A22FA72%40msn.com

> Thanks Dave, that is what I've been doing for now, but it
> is not natural for me to do it. I use ALT+TAB for all
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