excel 2016 - no floating windows

Question

Can't I have floating windows any more in Excel 2016? If I open a new workbook, click the new window and arrange them horizontally I get a new window but it has its own toolbar, rather than another view of the same sheet. This has, in the past, always allowed me to have three or four sheets of the same workbook on the screen at the same time. Now I have to have a separate Excel window for every sheet. Or am I being stupid?

Any help would be gratefully received!

John Pryor

Answer 1

Rest assured you are NOT being stupid.

Starting with Excel 2013, Microsoft change Excel from Multiple Document Interface (MDI),  to Single Document Interface****(SDI). So Excel now behaves like Word - separate windows for separate workbooks.

For more read:

https://blogs.office.com/2013/02/07/open-excel-workbooks-in-separate-windows-and-view-them-side-by-side/

best wishes

Answer 2

Wonderful.

I am sure you will soon come to love the change to SDI

cheers

Answer 3

You would agree with the change if you worked with multiple files with a two monitor setup

cheers

Answer 4

You would agree with the change if you worked with multiple files with a two monitor setup

cheers

Answer 5

Thanks, Bernard - at least I understand now, even if I don't agree with the change.