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by meetu_makhija

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I have noticed in office 2000 that each time you open one file within eg Excel, it opens a separate instance of the program.

Eg in Excel with a blank workbook, open another Excel spreadsheet and it shows another instance of Excel on the taskbar. This applies to Word etc etc too.

Can you tell me how to change this so that it opens in the same program instance ?

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by dklippert

It's called SDI Single Document Interface. In Excel you can turn it off by going to Tools>Options View. Remove the check mark from "Windows in Taskbar.
Word has the same "feature", but you can't turn it off.

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