The Online Tech Tips blog explains how to use a registry hack to add an "Open in New Excel Instance" item to your context menu—which will open your spreadsheet in a separate copy of Excel, so ...

There are a couple of ways to have Excel open most conveniently for you.

Opening a second instance of Microsoft Excel causes Windows to load a new copy of the program into memory. This can be useful when you find yourself waiting a long time for Excel to complete ...

While minimizing Excel to open an existing document in Word -- or to create a new one -- is relatively quick and simple, using Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, you can program macros or ...

If Microsoft Excel opens a Blank screen when you open an existing file, then you can stop Excel from opening a Blank workbook or sheet.

Add or Remove Programs entry for Microsoft Excel Viewer 97. This program allows you to open, view and print excel spreadsheets even if you don't have Excel installed.

I have a spreadsheet that keeps track of all the IP addresses of the various switches and routers I administrate. I'd like to be able to set it up so that if I click on an IP address, it launches ...

If you cannot open an Excel file and see Excel cannot open the file because the file format or extension is not valid error, see this post.