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Coool. I never noticed that before. It looks like Microsoft added this
behavior to Word and PowerPoint, but not to Excel. Back in the "old" days,
you would need to open separate instances of the application to get the
behavior. That still works today, but it is a hassle and can become
problematic. Open Excel for each document, then when you click the big "X,"
you will only close one instance of Excel. If you have memory issues, then
they will get worse.
If I needed this behavior, then I would put an Excel shortcut in my task bar
and open a new instance of Excel each time I wanted a new document, instead
of opening a new window for my document.
It could be that Microsoft intentionally left off the behavior because of
the memory issues caused by having too many instances of Excel. Excel does
require a lot of resources that other Microsoft applications do not.
Lauren
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> Subject: Office gripe
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> Why is the default file handling behavior different for Office apps?
> Specifically the thing that drives me nuts: in Word, when you have 4
> docs open and hit the 'close' button (upper right) the *document*
> closes, while for Excel the entire *app* closes. I keep finding myself
> closing all 3-4 spreadsheets I have open instead of just the one I am
> finished with - then i have to remember what I was working on and
> re-open it.
>
> Is there a way to change this behavior?
>
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> Susan Hogarth
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