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Excel 2010 Win7 Open Multiple Windows
I was searching for a way to open multiple windows in Excel every time I double clicked on an Xls or Xlsx file. I looked and found some solutions for 2007 and prior versions however I did not find any solutions for the Win7 Excel 2010 environment.
(I did find a way to do it by changing a fix for Win7 Excel 2007. Please let me know if it helps or if there is a different/better way to fix.)
Works for
Excel 2010 & Win7 (could work for 07 not tested)
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Open Registry Editor ver 6.1
-Go to Branch:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command
(Note: it doesn't matter what is listed under default)
-Change the value command and under data remove /dde (or /e) and add after existing string the following code below
/p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"
(Note: /p switch will ignore the (default) open settings)
-Go to Branch:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\ddeexec
-Rename ddeexec2
(compare to screen shot)
Excel 2010 Win7 Registry.jpg
Hope that helps users with Win7 Excel 2010.
-Kenton
Last edited by kentonj123; 12 Oct 2010 at 13:42.