Allow more than 1 instance in Excel 2016
Can you please bring back the ability to open more than 1 instance of Excel? Currently when I have a macro running, I am unable to utilize Excel because of this new setup. In the older versions of Excel, it was nice to be able to choose how many instances you wanted to open.
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Hi,
This is already supported. To start a new Excel instance, press Windows+R (Run), then type “Excel /x” without quotes.
You’ll get a new process that will be isolated from other Excel instances.
Cheers,
Dan [MS]
4 comments
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Anonymous
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press Windows+R (Run), then type “Excel /x” or the regkey DisableMergeInstance does not allow the user to open an Excel file double clicking on the file.
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Anonymous
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We all need to open an Excel file double clicking on it directly.
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Rick Noltemy
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there is a registry key you can put into the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\Options
DisableMergeInstance as a DWORD and set to 1.
Then every instance will launch seperately. If you want something in the same instance, then use File->Open from that instance
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anonymous
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This is not fully supported.
When opening from explorer (double-clicking) on an Excel document, there is no option for running in a separate instance.