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How can we improve Excel for Windows (Desktop Application)?

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Enable multiple workbooks in a single Excel instance.

Please update Excel so that it can open multiple workbooks in a single instance, like it used to. Having multiple instances open hinders my efficiency: I can't ctrl-Tab between workbooks and I can't Paste-Special from different Excel instances the same way I can within the same instance.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please update Excel so I can open multiple workbooks in a single instance of the program! The lack of this obvious feature, which you removed since Office 2010, is appalling. I'm wasting screen space on multiple instances of the Ribbon.

  • Troy Buerge commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is an awesome Idea. I believe that it should be implemented with the use of a tabbed interface, similar to browser tabs, or similar to the current worksheet tabs, only on the top or side of the page.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I support this as well. It also hinders efficiency by not allowing one ribbon across the top of multiple open files.

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