Opening New App Instance Makes Existing Instance Pop-Up In Task Bar

Question

Whenever I want to open a new excel file, the screen first goes to existing excel instance and then opens the new file. This works fine. But, sometimes the screen doesn't go to the existing excel file and opens new one directly making existing file showing a pop-up on my taskbar (I am using automatically hide settings for taskbar behaviors). Now I will have to go through each of the excel files to hide my taskbar.

Is there any way to avoid this?

Answer 1

This is by design in Excel. There is no such setting in Excel to avoid it.

You may try opening workbooks by running separate instances of Excel.

Open your first workbook and then while holding the ALT key down right click on the taskbar icon and open another workbook. Continue to hold down the ALT key until you get a popup asking if you want another instance of Excel. Click yes and then open your second workbook.