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Just a quick one, while I wait for other things to happen...
Maybe you've noticed that Microsoft Excel behaves a little strangely when you alt-tab between its windows (not moving between documents in the way you expect, closing all the Excel windows when you close one spreadsheet, outright crashing sometimes, etc). If you have, well, you don't have to put up with it. It turns out that this is due to Excel trying to be a little too clever, and starting all the spreadsheets you open in a single copy of Excel rather than opening a copy for each spreadsheet, like most sensible programs. This small distinction does very strange things to its behaviour.
Fortunately, it's fixable. tech-archive.net tells you how. Thanks to Bluebottle, on IRC, for pointing this one out.
Have fun.
2009/10/06 - Torkell (19:35)
Thanks, I'll have to remember that one. I wonder if it'll work in Word as well - if its does it'd stop one mangled Word document taking out all the other ones that are open (which really confuses IE when they're opened in IE tabs).