The quoted post I happened to find that explained it perfectly. Theres nothing b

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The quoted post I happened to find that explained it perfectly. Theres nothing brief about trying to explain a problem that everyone seems to misunderstand so easily.

And no, I can view them perfectly fine in and of themselves. If I open one called A, and another called B, they both open with two tabs in my taskbar, one for each. If I click A, I can view A. Same for B. The problem lies that I cannot view BOTH at the same time. I do not want to "compare them side by side in one excel document!", but rather, I want each document to be running its own instance/application of Excel, such as it did before.

The problem with how it is now, is it seems to be running them within one, and they appear, for lacck of other words, "underneath" eachother. If I hit the big red X at the top of Excel, it closes both now. I dontt want it like this. Id like it to run two separate Excel's, each one with its own document (like if I opened excel, opeened the document within it, then opened excel again, and then the second -- which is what im forced to do now tto get it to do what I want -- but Id like it to do this automatically when I open the files themselves like it did beforre).

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I just found a solution in another discussion:
1.Click the "window" button in Excel
2. Click "Excel Options" at the bottom of the menu
3. In the menu that comes up choose "Advanced"
4. Scroll down to the "General" section
5. Check the "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)"
6. Click "Okay"
I had the same problem, and this is the only thing that fixed the problem.

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