This allows me to click on the Excel icon/button to Restore/Activate the workbook without having to go into the Excel instance and having to minimize one Workbook and having to restore the other one.Again, Excel already has an instance running so it opens the 3rd file in the same instance that has the other 2 files open.īUT, the Win7 Taskbar has 3 Excel icons/buttons with the title. I go to the Windows Explorer and click on a 3rd Excel file (file #3). And each of the icons/buttons shows the title of the Workbook. Instead, the Win7 Taskbar shows a 2nd Excel icon/button. But it does not start another instance of Excel. Excel already has an instance working so it opens the 2nd file. I go to another folder and click on another Excel file (file #2). Excel starts and then opens the Excel file that I clicked on. I go to a folder in Windows Explorer and click on an Excel file.

Previously, this is how Excel2000 worked. Something changed on either Excel2000 or on Windows 7 that has caused a problem. My Win7 Taskbar property is set to 'Never combine' Taskbar buttons. I am running Office 2000/Excel 2000 on Windows 7.

Excel icon 2021