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No more CRT Arcade monitors? :(
Vigo:
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--- 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.
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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.
--- 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: