Microsoft Excel Free Download For Pc Windows 8.1

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Kylee Evancho

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:48:28 PM8/3/24

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I want excel to open multiple spreadsheets in completely separate windows. I don't want to view side by side or anything I just want them to be on completely different windows. For example, when I hover over excel in my desktop taskbar, I want all of my spreadsheets to show. Thank you!

You can make changes in one window and Close it. Since it's just another view of the same file, no one will ask you to save (you have another window still open). Changes done in ne window will be automatically reflected on the other window.

Like Theo_Bear and and Nabil, your question is not totally clear to me either. If by "multiple spreadsheets" you actually mean "multiple workbooks", it sounds as if you want to know how to open each Excel workbook in its own dedicated instance, so they show up as such on your task bar as you mentioned. If that is what you want, this picture shows 2 methods for achieving that objective.

I suddenly had Office 2010 stop opening different Excel Files (ok worksheets) in their own instance, when they were doing it previously every time. Not sure what happened to make them stop doing it, but suddenly I could only view one at a time. If I went to File Explorer and double-clicked they would open and take the place of the one I was looking at. I can see there are 2 open only by looking at the task bar, where they are tiled. Your instruction to go to Start and then Alt-Click Excel did open a new instance and I can then view the to workbooks side by side as their own instance.

My Work laptop uses 365 in Windows 11 (yuck) after a recent upgrade from 10 got pushed out. However, it behaves like I want, and opens a new instance every time also. No, I don't open them in Edge. It's set to open in Desktop App. I did nothing to set the behavior, it has just always been that way. It's only my Win 7 Desktop that started this weird behavior.

In other apps, when I hit Alt+Tab it switches to the previous app. Before I actually release the Alt key I can see a list of windows as well and the previous windows is selected. But in Excel 2010 (Professional Plus, if that makes any difference) hitting Alt+Tab and not releasing Alt shows Excel still selected, and in any case I have to hit Tab an extra time to switch to the previous application. (Alt+Tab+Tab) Furthermore, the iconized view showing my spreadsheet only takes up about 1/3 of the height available.

Needless to say this throws off my workflow because switching between Excel and another application is inconsistent, requiring an extra keystroke to switch away but not to switch back. Is this a bug in Excel, or is there some option that I need to change to get the default behavior? What's going on here?

In the 2013 version, each Excel file shows in its own window. This is one major change to previous versions. Each window has its own ribbonand it is no longer possible to show several Excel files in the same window.

The old UI is a lot more limited, it doesn't show thumbnails for the open windows, and you can't click to select windows. But since I frequently Alt + Tab between different Excel windows, and also between Excel windows and other application windows, I'd prefer sticking with the older UI over having to deal with the Alt + Tab + Tab.

This was also happening to me when switching between excel and Chrome - one of my Chrome extensions was a video downloader - disabling this in chrome://extensions/ fixed the Alt+Tab+Tab issue for me. Seems a bit random but might be worth a look.