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StephanieH - 03 Oct 2006 15:03 GMT

My entire system crashed a couple days ago. The IT guys reimaged the pc and
I've lost a lot of settings.

Now, Excel always opens a new session anytime I open a workbook. In other
words, each workbook appears separately on my task bar. I'd like to have a
single session of Excel with all the workbooks in it. How do I force it to
open the workbooks in the same session/instance?

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Dave Peterson - 03 Oct 2006 19:56 GMT

Maybe it's just:
tools|options|View tab|uncheck windows in taskbar.

If it's not:

Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

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.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

> My entire system crashed a couple days ago. The IT guys reimaged the pc and
> I've lost a lot of settings.
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> single session of Excel with all the workbooks in it. How do I force it to
> open the workbooks in the same session/instance?

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StephanieH - 03 Oct 2006 20:02 GMT

Thanks Dave..

> Maybe it's just:
> tools|options|View tab|uncheck windows in taskbar.
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> > single session of Excel with all the workbooks in it. How do I force it to
> > open the workbooks in the same session/instance?

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StephanieH - 03 Oct 2006 20:01 GMT

Found it, if anyone is interested.

Tools, Options, View, deleselt "Windows in Taskbar"

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