Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Appearance of Excel on the Taskbar.
If you are using Excel 2000 (or later), you can control how Excel workbooks appear on your task bar. You can instruct Excel to display only a single task regardless of how many workbooks are open, or you can have it display one task for each workbook.
To specify how Excel utilizes the toolbar, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The View tab of the Options dialog box.
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2014-06-25 02:59:18
marlon
thank you..
2013-12-03 01:27:37
Jagade
I could not find this, looks like an old version or was I looking in the wrong place. I had Excel open and clicked on the "File" tab and went down to Options but it looked nothing like this
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