Newer versions of Excel by default do something that earlier versions did not, and I'm wondering if there is a setting I can change somewhere.

It used to be (years ago) that if I opened Excel files by file association (double-clicking on the *.xls file) each file opened in a separate window, so I could display two or three of them on the screen at once, copy and paste from one to another, etc.

Today if I open them that way, a single window of Excel is all that displays at one time. More than one file is open, but I have to page from one file to another to see the individual files, I cannot see them at the same time.

If I open Excel by clicking on the Excel icon (not the *.xls file), and go File/Open/[filename] then I can have as many independent windows of Excel as I want.

Is there something I can change so that opening multiple files by file association will show each file running in a separate window?

tanstaafl.