Multiple Excel apps running

[kurchian]

I recently installed Excel 2010 after having used Excel 2003 for many years.
Since I installed the newer version I find that whenever I open an Excel file by clicking on a file name within a My Documents window a new Excel application opens. Before long I may have 10 different Excel applications running simultaneously. I don't recall this occurring in Excel 2003.

This isn't critical but I soon run out of memory and I have to manually quit each application.

Is there a way to only have ONE Excel application running even though I may have several individual files open?

(Note: I prefer to open my Excel files through the My Docs screens rather thatn open them up from within Excel.)

 

[Juan Pablo González]

The two things that I can think of, both under File | Options, Advanced.

1. Uncheck the "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) (Way at the bottom)
2. Uncheck the "Show all windows in the Taskbar" (around the middle)

 

[kurchian]

Thank you for the proposed solution. I've tried it (and various combinations of it) and it hasn't worked.

I still have a separate and distinct Excel app. running with every single Excel file I open. I manage this by exiting the application every time I want to close down a file. If I don't do that I will have a separate Excel app. running for every file that is open.

I'm stumped!