|3lack|ce, I know it can be done this way. I want to do it the other day, by opening Excel directly by clicking on the file.
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|3lack|ce, I know it can be done this way. I want to do it the other day, by opening Excel directly by clicking on the file.
Ah, ok. Let me play with it a bit and I'll get back to you. I'm running office 2003 - and I have reproduced your problem.
[edit]I hope this solves it, although I'm bringing bad news. Hitting alt+f4 tells windows to close the entire program. It's the same thing as hitting the X-box at the top right corner. In Excel, when a new document (or book) is opened, it puts a smaller x-box in - kind of like the tab close x's in firefox. The smaller x closes the individual documents. The larger closes the program. The only way I can see to have alt+f4 only close an individual book would be to reprogram the alt+f4 hotkey through windows. Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you.[/edit]
[edit2] Found this which also might help
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Assign or change a keyboard accelerator
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You can rearrange and modify toolbar buttons, menus, and menu commands by using the mouse or you can use the Rearrange Commands dialog box which is accessible using a keyboard menu. These tasks are identified as (keyboard accessible).
A keyboard accelerator allows you to select a menu command or button by pressing ALT+<single letter>. For example, to open the Edit menu, press ALT+E.
[editfinal]And this, which judging by what I read, fixes your problem - (CTRL+F4)
I found that in the 'shortcut keys' helpfile under 'windows operations/windows interface' [/editfinal]Quote:
Close the selected workbook window.
CTRL+W or CTRL+F4
ok! Good Thank!
Just posting again to tag your email - please see my edit above. Still looking, but I think that's the only fix or it's not do-able.
Well, thank anyway! I'll stick to open excel by command prompt then! I pack AP to the thread for help!
I saw the ap assignment. Very much appreciated! Check the edits again - there's a solution there -
CTRL+F4
Thank. Sadly, I close all my windows using a hotkey (Alt-F4) that is programmed directly into a mouse button. And I really need to be able to open Excel twice to be able to have 2 excels file on my dual monitor (Doesn't work if it's the same workbook)