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Vigo:


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--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 23, 2010, 01:02:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zakk on December 23, 2010, 12:28:02 pm ---I agree, I can stretch an excel spreadsheet over two widescreen monitors, that's awesome. 

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Yeah, but you can't have two separate instances of Excel running*.  Drives me bonkers.  You can do it with other Office stuff.

* - I'd love to be proven wrong on this.  Please please please.

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I do it all the time - what version of Excel are you using?  I have 2 seperate instances of Excel 2010 running right now, and at work I do it with Excel 2007 :dunno

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I can run multiple instances with my excel, but I can't have them intact off of each other with formulas. I can stretch 1 instance of excel across both screens though, and have two windowed spreadsheets at the same time under the same instance...

And Windows 7 Aero snap blows. I am cussing it out every time it reconfigures my windows size on me because I dragged it too far to the side.  :angry:

boykster:


--- Quote from: Vigo on December 23, 2010, 02:01:21 pm ---
I can run multiple instances with my excel, but I can't have them intact off of each other with formulas. I can stretch 1 instance of excel across both screens though, and have two windowed spreadsheets at the same time under the same instance...


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Yeah - you either get 2 separate independent instances (no function / cell references), or you have multiple worksheets in the same instance but they have to live in a shared 'window'

sometimes I WANT my functions to be sandboxed though.  I'm often working from an internal spreadsheet and porting the data over to a customer facing one - I want to remove all references to internal stuff and just paste in data.  Having them in separate instances ensures that when I drop data in, it will be the values only and no references.

I don't use Win7 on my work computer, but I like it on my computer at home. 

Vigo:

Yeah, I only use windows 7 at home, and my monitor is way to small to make use of the snap feature. I might like it if I had a big enough monitor at home.

Zakk:


--- Quote from: boykster on December 23, 2010, 01:47:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 23, 2010, 01:02:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zakk on December 23, 2010, 12:28:02 pm ---I agree, I can stretch an excel spreadsheet over two widescreen monitors, that's awesome. 

--- End quote ---

Yeah, but you can't have two separate instances of Excel running*.  Drives me bonkers.  You can do it with other Office stuff.

* - I'd love to be proven wrong on this.  Please please please.

--- End quote ---

I do it all the time - what version of Excel are you using?  I have 2 seperate instances of Excel 2010 running right now, and at work I do it with Excel 2007 :dunno

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I just opened 5 instances of excel 2010.  Yep, no problem whatsoever.  I thought it might open another window within excel, but nope, whole new instance. 

Osirus23:

So often I come across someone's office where they have a nice 22" 1680x1050 monitor and they're running it 1024x768  :angry:


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