Anyone seen this before? Excel 2000 vs. W2K Pro (SP3 on both)

[BooneRebel]

Open Excel, open a bunch of other applications. Excel stays in the taskbar to the left of all the other programs.

Now, within the Excel app, open a spreadsheet. Close the spreadsheet and Excel jumps to the far right of the applications in the taskbar.

It's my understanding that the taskbar lists programs from left to right based on the order that they were opened. Why would the Excel app move since I'm not closing the program, just a file within it? I'll give all my Grasshopper points to the first person with right answer...

 

[amdskip]

This doesn't work in Windows XP pro.

 

[Anubis]

yea ive seen it when i was runnin 2K. didnt really bother me tho

 

[darkjester]

Originally posted by: amdskip
This doesn't work in Windows XP pro.

Hence the title of the thread: Anyone seen this before? Excel 2000 vs. W2K Pro

 

[fr]

It doesn't happen with Windows 2000 SP3 and Office XP SP2.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: BooneRebel
Open Excel, open a bunch of other applications. Excel stays in the taskbar to the left of all the other programs.

Now, within the Excel app, open a spreadsheet. Close the spreadsheet and Excel jumps to the far right of the applications in the taskbar.

It's my understanding that the taskbar lists programs from left to right based on the order that they were opened. Why would the Excel app move since I'm not closing the program, just a file within it? I'll give all my Grasshopper points to the first person with right answer...

Excel 2000 is threaded. The application actually opens a second thread of itself when you open a new spreadsheet and closes the original thread. Replace "thread" with the proper concept for reloading itself and that will make sense.

 

[radioouman]

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro with Excel 2000, and that doesn't happen for me. It stays right where it was when I opened it. Pretty cool huh?

 

[BooneRebel]

Originally posted by: radioouman
I'm running Windows 2000 Pro with Excel 2000, and that doesn't happen for me. It stays right where it was when I opened it. Pretty cool huh?

Which service packs (Windows & Office?)

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: darkjester

Originally posted by: amdskip
This doesn't work in Windows XP pro.

Hence the title of the thread: Anyone seen this before? Excel 2000 vs. W2K Pro

ummm yeah....I was simply stating that I tried it with XP so