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New sheets have their own taskbar buttons - what's up with this?

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Steve Vincent - 17 May 2007 22:13 GMT

Hi,
I have an Excel user whose taskbar shows a separate taskbar button for each
Sheet in a workbook, automatically. This happens even just when launching
Excel -- there is a separate taskbar button for each of the three blank
Sheets (Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3). She does not want this behavior, and I have
not discovered what is causing it, or how to disable it, or if it's a feature
or a bug (or if there's even a difference ;-).

Any suggestions?
TIA,
Steve
svincent@harbornet.com

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Dave Peterson - 17 May 2007 22:41 GMT

Each sheet? Or each visible window?

If it's the windows, not each sheet...
I'd try tools|options|view tab|uncheck windows in taskbar

> Hi,
> I have an Excel user whose taskbar shows a separate taskbar button for each
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Steve Vincent - 17 May 2007 23:18 GMT

Each separate sheet -- not workbook, not Window... but each sheet. It's
strange. We've already tried unchecking "Windows in taskbar." But each
sheet, even all three sheets of a new blank workbook, have their own taskbar
button upon launching Excel, and without any other intervening action.

> Each sheet? Or each visible window?
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Dave Peterson - 18 May 2007 01:13 GMT

I don't have a guess.

But you may want to share the versions of windows and excel that you're using.

And anything else you've tried...

> Each separate sheet -- not workbook, not Window... but each sheet. It's
> strange. We've already tried unchecking "Windows in taskbar." But each
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