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You can open multiple Excel instances since at least Excel 2003 but Excel would not go out of its way to open files in a new instance if you just double click o
by MekaiGS 13y ago
You can open multiple Excel instances since at least Excel 2003 but Excel would not go out of its way to open files in a new instance if you just double click on the file.
- CamperBob2 13y agoRight, which is how no other Windows application in the 69,105 known planes of existence works. :(
- kyrias 13y agoIf you click on a link, an internet shortcut or just your browser icon again you don't get a new instance.
- christianmann 13y agoReally? I at least get a new tab, a new window if I've asked it nicely to.
- kyrias 13y agoNew instance =! new window/tab
- flomo 13y agoPrior to tabbed browsing, browsers acted like 'normal' (SDI) Windows apps. The complaint about Excel is that it's an 'old-fashioned' MDI application and is missing UI widgets for easily switching between documents. (And that it's behavior is inconsistant because you can easily open multiple root windows.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface
- CamperBob2 13y agoYou do if you configure your browser that way. Excel doesn't allow you to do that, even though the code clearly supports it. (As others have said, you can launch multiple copies with their own windows by running the .exe manually.) As far as I can tell, it's just a matter of someone at MS being an asshat.
- kyrias 13y agoWhich browsers do that, if I may ask?
- CamperBob2 13y agoWhich ones don't? In Firefox, it's simply a matter of checking "Open new windows in a new tab instead" if that's what you want. I leave that feature enabled in Firefox, but I would prefer that Excel didn't work that way. It would take five minutes' work to give me the option. In any case a tab-based Web browser is a completely different sort of application than Excel.
- kyrias 13y agoWhich has nothing to do with instances of the browser.
- CamperBob2 13y agoAnd your point is...? Are you somehow attempting to justify the way Excel behaves by talking about Web browsers?