Running Windwos XP Pro and Excel 2003.  If I open more than one
spreadsheet within the same instance of the Excel application, the
software throws another separate Excel icon down on my task bar.  As I
often have as many as two dozen spreadsheets open at a time, this is
crowding the other applications I'm running on the taskbar and driving
me crazy.  Can someone please point me to how to activate the option
to NOT open multiple taskbar icons?

---

Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 01 Jun 2005 07:34 PDT

Hi addisonbr,

Is this what you are looking for?

In Excel, go to Tools / Options / Views tab 
Uncheck the "Windows in Taskbar" option 
Only one icon will appear in the taskbar.

Will look forward to your reply.
hummer

---

Clarification of Question by addisonbr-ga on 01 Jun 2005 13:39 PDT

YES!

---

Clarification of Question by addisonbr-ga on 01 Jun 2005 13:40 PDT

Thank you!

Hi addisonbr,

Terrific! Thank you for letting me know, I appreciate it. Hopefully
you will rest more easily tonight.

Here it is again to make it official -

In Excel, go to Tools / Options / Views tab 
Uncheck the "Windows in Taskbar" option 
Only one icon will appear in the taskbar.

Take care,
hummer

FAST and PRECISELY WHAT I WANTED

I didn't ask the question, but thanks Hummer. I didn't know that
annoying behaviour could be killed.

Thank you for your nice note, dmrmv, that's very nice of you.  Sincerely, hummer

Thank you, addisonbr!  Cheers, hummer