Stoopid MS Office question

[lykaon78]

When I open two MS Word documents, I get two seperate and distinct MS Word application windows each with the singular document I opened.

When I open two MS Excel workbooks, I get one MS Excel application window with two sub windows for each workbook that I open within that main application window. Each work book is confined to the space of the original singular application window.

This is a problem because I run two monitors at work and it is really helpful to have two MS excel workbooks side by side to compare data and its just a pain in the tail to try and manipulate two smaller windows within a bigger one.

Any idea how to fix this quirky problem? MS Word has it correct but Excel does not.

I am running WindowsXP professional with Office 2000.

 

[MSCoder610]

What about opening one (one copy of Excel starts), manually launching Excel again, and opening the second workbook in that? I tried looking for some other way but I couldn't find one. The same thing happens in Excel 2003.

 

[lykaon78]

Thanks for the tip... I bet that wil work. I'm on my home computer now. I'll try that when I get to work tomorrow.

Any other suggestions? I guess I was hoping there is some kind of Option or Preference I can change to fix this seeing how MS Word opens the way I want it to.

Although it just occurred to me, this setting I am trying to defeat may be required to copy and paste from one workbook to the other flawlessly (formulas, borders, styles, basically anything under the 'Paste Special' option.