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Beat me by seconds. Your turn tomorrow 
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Oi!
I'll say if he's correct or not.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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You know I hovered over the post button for awhile debating whether or not to hit it, as I'm OoO tomorrow and don't normally CP at home.
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Yeah, that's right.
Just after I got yesterdays right the wife phoned to say there was hot water gushing out under the kitchen sink and she couldn't work out how to turn it off.
Not had time to work on a decent clue and completely forgot about it until clicking through to the lounge ten minutes ago.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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If it's any consolation, years ago I went to Dallas with my boss for a week long training course on some new kit we were buying.
On the second day his wife rang, saying there were rats coming out of the drain by the swimming pool, and what was he going to do about it?
He did offer to find a local rat catcher and fly him over to England, but that went down like a lead ballon... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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chriselst wrote: Just after I got yesterdays right the wife phoned to say there was hot water gushing out under the kitchen sink and she couldn't work out how to turn it off.
I've been living in my current house for approaching 4 years now and have never found where the stopcock is. I'm dreading the inevitable.
BTW did your nephew get to sample the delights of the South Coast. Has he converted to Pompey supporter?
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I believed they enjoyed themselves, despite our performance (I half watched the game on my phone in Pizza Express using their free wi-fi and my brother's Sky Go password) and result.
Went over to the IoW on the hovercraft, stopped off in London on the way home and had a tour of Wembley.
Still very much a Derby fan, although I don't think his favourite player busting his cruciate in the opening game of the season has helped.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Werewolves.
Anagram of low rev ewes, and they would easily dismember them 
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When will I be able to EASILY put two different Excel windows on two separate screens ?
There are at least billion of people who would like to do that on a daily basis, and still no solution. (There are hacks, but geez, if I have to open another process each time it is a no go. One window = one different instance, changeable using a setting). SDI rulez 
DAMN. 
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Rage wrote: When will I be able to EASILY put two different Excel windows on two separate screens ?
It is easy...you just need two machines.
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Or even side-by-side on the same screen, I don't care...
I love Excel, but I have to agree with you: this is a PITA. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't you just launch Excel from the start menu twice? That's all I do. Not ideal but hardly a massive effort.
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No, I double click on files in Total Commander.
Opening the applications and then navigating to both files (our internal paths and directory structures have up to 17 levels) is a PITA, and actually soooo Windows98.
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What's wrong with Windows 98? 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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About 15 years...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Rage wrote: Opening the applications and then navigating to both files (our internal paths and directory structures have up to 17 levels) is a PITA
Once Excel is running, just launch the second instance by right-clicking on its icon on the taskbar...? What am I missing?
Also, if your files are that deep in some hierarchy: Shortcuts.
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dandy72 wrote: What am I missing?
Even with two open instances, you need to navigate to your file to open it. make it a SDI application, one double click on a file opens it in a separate instance, et voilà. What is so complicated ?
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I do this every day. I have 3 monitors. Sometimes I have Excel in 3 separate monitors.
All you need to do is open 2-3 distinct instances of excel.
I'm sure I don't understand your post, because I would think you could figure that out? 
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In my case this is how it works by default...
Windows 7 (it makes the same in 8.1 and in 10)...
Office 2013.
When I double click an excel file I get another excel instance opened automatically.
Also I can just open it again from the start menu.
Also I can middle click the excel task bar icon.
In all cases I get another instance of Excel and therefore I can put it into another display by moving the window (mouse or Window + right arrow...).
Which Excel version do you have?
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I have Win 7 and Office 2013 and that does not happen to me. You must have configured it differently somehow. Not sure how though.
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Sure not... I've just got this laptop since one month or so and I don't remember making anything special to install office... 
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I went on searching after posting the OC, and it seems that this goes better in 2013 (provided the option has been checked). I have 2007 and 2010. I will install the new version.
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Not quite. In 2013 you don't have the all spreadsheets in a process share the same top level window limitation. You DO however still have all the other all spreadsheets are in a single process limitations; and out of the box 2013 is worse in this regard in some ways. Notably, and this is one that would enrage me enough at times that even when I didn't need to look at two XLSs at the same time I'd run multiple processes, all spreadsheets in a single process ahare a single undo buffer. Meaning that if you:
0) Open 2 spreadsheets.
1) Make a change in file 1.
2) Make a change in file 2.
3) Make a change in file 1.
4) Hit under twice in file 1.
Will undo the 2nd change in file 1, the only change in file 2, but still have the first change in file 1. This generally would bite me when I started editing a table and realized I was making enough changes that instead of being able to comfortably show them with strikeouts/different font colors (Word style track changes in Excel please).
With 2010 and prior I'd open a new temp XLS in a different process paste the updated table to it. Hammer undo in the original, and then paste the updated one back next to the original.
2013 broke this workflow. By default it has a helpful feature where if it sees you have two excel processes running it combines them into one and terminates the second without closing any of your files. This does have some benefits because copy/pasting between processes loses some things that can be copied within a process (although why they couldn't just make in/out process copy/paste work the same is beyond me) and reduces resource requirements; but it wrecked my workflow and initially left me thinking that the only workaround was to save my temp to disk so I could subvert the retarded unified undo buffer.
Eventually I found out there was a flag /X I could pass the shortcut on my taskbar to force it to launch a new process that wouldn't be merged instead of cluttering my computer up with temps I'd never remember to delete.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Undo does suck in multiple Excel files.
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