Hi

I'm new to the forum, so please forgive me if this subject has already been
addressed...

I have great problems opening more than one workbook at a time.  Excel works
ok if I open it, open a workbook and then open it again to open the second,
but, if I open one instance of Excel and then file/open and file/open again
(mainly because I have linked cells to other workbooks), then quite often
Excel will encounter some error or other and close down.  Frequently it will
try to recover whatever workbooks were open and offer them up for re-load
afterwards.  I don't think these files have been corrupted or data lost, so
far.

Each workbook was originally created in Office '97 which may be relevent.

Many Thanks

Mark Bunch