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each doc still gets its own icon on the taskbar and is available via Alt-TAB.


Exactly. But when I cut and paste from one document to another, I greatly prefer to see both documents at the same time. It makes it easier to stay oriented and keep track of what I'm doing.

As mentioned above, the workaround is to not use the file association method of opening the files, but instead just start separate instances of Excel from the shortcut icon and use File/Open to open each file.

I had hoped that there was some Excel setting that I just couldn't find that would change its default behavior to what it used to be back in the "old days" -- probably around 2000 or 2001, I'd guess.

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