Apr 28 2008

Excel windows on multiple monitors

Published by Steve Richards at 9:21 am under Main

image As a keen user of multiple displays - Excel really frustrates me, with its inability to open multiple windows on different displays. 

I found a hack that involved manually resizing the Excel main/parent window so that it spanned multiple displays and manually dragging Excel child windows onto other displays, which is ok, but not perfect for me.

However I also found that if you have Excel running that you can launch a second copy just fine so long as you launch it from Internet Explorer. 

Since I use Maxthon I then realised there was an even easier way, just define a new external tool as follows:

  1. Open the tools menu
  2. Open the External utilities sub menu
  3. Click +
  4. Browse to Excel.exe
  5. Save

And that’s all there is to it.  Now you can launch as many copies of Excel as you want and place them wherever you want :-)

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3 Responses to “Excel windows on multiple monitors”

  1. # RGlazieron 28 Apr 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Hi Steve,

    You can also CTRL+ click as you open Excel from the start menu. Seems to work well.

    Credit: Reader comment on Vista Clues
    http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-open-excel-on-multiple-monitors/

    Though I am on XP it still works fine for me.

    Thanks,

    Rob

  2. # Steven, not Steveon 08 May 2008 at 3:31 pm

    The CTRL+ click on Excel works for me, on Windows XP.

    Now if only someone can find a way to make this work for PowerPoint

  3. # Stu Downeson 27 May 2008 at 12:17 pm

    In vista start run excel.exe works well to get multiple excel sessions running for me.

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