Office 2003 / Win XP help

[I-Hate-Hulse]

I work with a lot of Excel sheets and have a dual monitor setup. As such what I'd to be able to do is drag one Excel window to Monitor 1 and one to Monitor 2.

Problem is, rather than open 2 instances of Excel, they are opened as two "windows" in 1 instance of Excel. Under Office / Windows 2000, you could click on a 2nd worksheet seperately and a new instance of Excel would pop up. Only seperate instances, not windows, can be dragged to seperate monitors (Resizing the Main Excel window to encompass both monitors is both a PITA and not effective as I'm running 2 different resolutions)

Anyone know how I can get multiple instances of Excel to open up instead of it bunching into a series of windows? I'm running Windows XP as an OS.

Thanks

[JohnnyO]

Hold down the shift key and double click on the Excel Icon to launch the program. I think that is what you are trying to do.

Edit for clarity.

[Eagle Eye]

Go to Tools, then Options, then the View tab and click the box titled 'Window in Task bar' and you will have each worksheet as a seperate window.

Hope thats what you are asking for.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Thanks JohnnyO - that at least opens a seperate instance of Excel from which I can open a file. Not the most elegant of ways but at least it can be done now.

EagleEye - unfortunately, all that does is show both windows of the same instance as two seperate "blocks" on the taskbar, it doesn't actually open two instances.

Thanks to you both!