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This week we go along exploring new features in Excel 2013. This post is brought to you by Republic of chad Rothschiller, a Program Director in the Excel Squad.

"How do I open my workbooks in separate windows?" This has been a common inquiry from many of our customers who want to wait at their workbooks side by side, or spread them across more than one monitor.

Adept news: starting with Excel 2013, each of your workbooks opens in its own window, like to Word and PowerPoint today. That ways that each workbook has its own ribbon and top-level window frame that y'all can movement and resize independent from your other open workbooks. This functionality tin can improve multitasking, visibility, and assay beyond workbooks.

In calculating terminology, this is chosen Unmarried Document Interface (SDI). Versions of Excel before the 2013 release used Multiple Document Interface (MDI), where all workbook windows were contained inside a superlative-level "master" container window.

Here's an instance of four new workbooks. Note that each one has its own window and ribbon:

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How to arrange your windows

At present that yous accept multiple windows, how should y'all adjust them? Well, there are plenty of options and below are some favorites:

Smart Snapping: Catch the top of the window, and elevate it to the top, left, or right edge of your screen, then permit become. The window automatically resize:

• Drag Left: Position on the left one-half of the screen
• Drag Right: Position on the right one-half of the screen
• Elevate Top: Fills the entire screen

Windows Taskbar: If y'all hold downward the Shift Key and and so correct click the Excel icon on the Windows Job Bar yous will see options for arranging your open windows. The cool thing nigh these options is that if you accept multiple monitors, Windows remembers each workbook'south monitor and arranges workbooks displayed within the aforementioned monitor.

Excel Ribbon: Click on View the Arrange All to run across more options for arranging your workbooks:

Note that you can still create new windows (or multiple windows) showing the same workbook. Similarly, the "View Side by side" and "Synchronous Scrolling" features work merely similar they used to.

Tell us what you think

Thank you for learning more than about this new feature in Excel 2013. I hope you lot all get wonderful benefits from beingness able to arrange workbooks on your screens!  In a future post, we'll become into a couple more avant-garde topics such as "Merging Instances and Long Running Operations" and how they piece of work with pre-existing add together-ins. In the meantime, let us know in the comments how y'all're planning to use this new feature or anything else you'd like to run into in future versions.

—Chad Rothschiller, Excel Program Manager

Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2013/02/07/open-excel-workbooks-in-separate-windows-and-view-them-side-by-side/

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