Microsoft Excel Classes

Arranging multiple workbook windows

Arranging multiple workbook windows


            As you work with Excel, you will probably need to have more than one workbook open at a time. When you have multiple workbooks open simultaneously, you can switch between them by clicking the View tab and then, in the Window group, clicking the Switch Windows button and clicking the name of the workbook you want to view.

You can arrange your workbooks on the desktop so that most of the active workbook is shown but the others are easily accessible. To do so, click the View tab and then, in the Window group, click the Arrange All button. Then, in the Arrange Windows dialog box, click Cascade.

  
To display two copies of the same workbook, open the workbook and then, on the View tab, in the Window group, click New Window to opens a second copy of the workbook. To display the workbooks side by side, on the View tab, click Arrange All. Then, in the Arrange Windows dialog box, click Vertical and then click OK. When you change the data in either copy of the workbook, Excel updates the other copy. 

If the original workbook’s name is Student Details, Excel displays the name Student Details:1 on the original workbook’s title bar and Student Details:2 on the second workbook’s title bar. 

TROUBLESHOOTING:  
         If the controls in the Window group on the View tab don’t affect your workbooks as you expect, you might have a program, such as SkyDrive for PC, open in the background that prevents those capabilities from functioning.