All Excel screens close when I close any one of them in Vista.

This may be a problem with other programs as well, but so far i've only
noticed it in Excel. I will be working with two spread sheets and each will
have it's own button on the taskbar, but when i close one any other excel
windows close as well which has been a real issue as i keep forgetting that
vista does this. Is there a preference setting that can be changed? or
perhaps a patch that can be downloaded. i really don't like this if it is
supposed to be some new sort of feature by Microsoft.

Re: All Excel screens close when I close any one of them in Vista.

Hello Jon,

This is not a Vista issue. It happens under WinXP as well (I am talking about
Office 2003).
It is one of those inconsistencies in Microsoft's programs.

Jos

> This may be a problem with other programs as well, but so far i've
> only noticed it in Excel. I will be working with two spread sheets and
> each will have it's own button on the taskbar, but when i close one
> any other excel windows close as well which has been a real issue as i
> keep forgetting that vista does this. Is there a preference setting
> that can be changed? or perhaps a patch that can be downloaded. i
> really don't like this if it is supposed to be some new sort of
> feature by Microsoft.
>

Re: All Excel screens close when I close any one of them in Vista.

"Jon Dough" wrote in message
news:A80513E7-72C8-4CF9-9A62-2B114FDAB0AC@microsoft.com...
> This may be a problem with other programs as well, but so far i've only
> noticed it in Excel. I will be working with two spread sheets and each
> will
> have it's own button on the taskbar, but when i close one any other excel
> windows close as well which has been a real issue as i keep forgetting
> that
> vista does this. Is there a preference setting that can be changed? or
> perhaps a patch that can be downloaded. i really don't like this if it is
> supposed to be some new sort of feature by Microsoft.
>


This is an inconsistency in Excel. Word doesn't do this.

Mike.

Re: All Excel screens close when I close any one of them in Vista.

Just make sure that when you are done with one of your Excel files you hit
the lower X in the top-right of the program, not the upper-most X.


"Jos Roijakkers" wrote in message
news:6d03bf6f147758c9fd962d9712a4@news.microsoft.com...
> Hello Jon,
>
> This is not a Vista issue. It happens under WinXP as well (I am talking
> about Office 2003). It is one of those inconsistencies in Microsoft's
> programs.
> Jos
>> This may be a problem with other programs as well, but so far i've
>> only noticed it in Excel. I will be working with two spread sheets and
>> each will have it's own button on the taskbar, but when i close one
>> any other excel windows close as well which has been a real issue as i
>> keep forgetting that vista does this. Is there a preference setting
>> that can be changed? or perhaps a patch that can be downloaded. i
>> really don't like this if it is supposed to be some new sort of
>> feature by Microsoft.
>>
>
>