Hi All, New to the forums and I've spent the better part of the day trying to fix this. Currently, the problem is only affecting Excel. Here's the skinny: I open two workbooks. When I click on the taskbar for Excel, it only shows the last opened workbook. It doesn't display all workbooks I have confirmed in my Options that the checkbox for "display all workbooks in taskbar" is selected The only way I can find the other workbooks is if I minimize the first one. Then, they all appear as minimized in the workspace. I tested this on PowerPoint and Word, and they still operate appropriately (One listing on the taskbar, when you highlight over, it shows all open PPTs, Word Docs). It seems strange as well that the documents are listed by name and then program (i.e. My PowerPoint - Microsoft PowerPoint) but with my Excel, it's reversed (Microsoft Excel - My Workbook). Help!

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Can only see other open workbooks when I minimize the first

Thread starter bradpierce5
Start date Jun 9, 2015

bradpierce5

New Member

Jun 9, 2015

Hi All,

New to the forums and I've spent the better part of the day trying to fix this. Currently, the problem is only affecting Excel. Here's the skinny:

I open two workbooks.
When I click on the taskbar for Excel, it only shows the last opened workbook. It doesn't display all workbooks
I have confirmed in my Options that the checkbox for "display all workbooks in taskbar" is selected
The only way I can find the other workbooks is if I minimize the first one. Then, they all appear as minimized in the workspace.

I tested this on PowerPoint and Word, and they still operate appropriately (One listing on the taskbar, when you highlight over, it shows all open PPTs, Word Docs). It seems strange as well that the documents are listed by name and then program (i.e. My PowerPoint - Microsoft PowerPoint) but with my Excel, it's reversed (Microsoft Excel - My Workbook).

Help!