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Otherwise, Excel also displays all the windows in any other workbooks you have open. Yes, it is possible to open more than one workbook provided that the device you’re running Excel on has sufficient screen space and memory.\n \n\nAfter you place windows in one arrangement or another, activate the one you want to use (if it isn’t selected already) by clicking it in the Excel program window. Alternatively, you position the mouse or touch pointer on the Excel 2013 program icon on the Windows 7 or 8 taskbar to display pop-up thumbnails for each of the worksheet windows you have open.\nTo display the contents of one of the Excel worksheet windows without the others visible, highlight its pop-up thumbnail on the Windows taskbar. To then activate a particular worksheet window from the taskbar, you simply click its thumbnail.\nWhen you click a worksheet window that has been tiled or placed in the horizontal or vertical arrangement, Excel indicates that the window is selected simply by displaying the cell pointer around the active cell and highlighting that cell’s column and row heading in the worksheet.\nWhen you click the title bar of a worksheet window you place in the cascade arrangement, the program displays the window on the top of the stack, as well as displaying the cell pointer in the sheet’s active cell.\nYou can temporarily zoom the window to full size by clicking the Maximize button on the window’s title bar. When you finish your work in the full-size worksheet window, return it to its previous arrangement by clicking the window’s Restore button.\nTo select the next tiled, horizontal, or vertical window on the screen or display the next window in a cascade arrangement with the keyboard, press Ctrl+F6. To select the previous tiled, horizontal, or vertical window or to display the previous window in a cascade arrangement, press Ctrl+Shift+F6. These keystrokes work to select the next and previous worksheet window even when the windows are maximized in the Excel program window.\nIf you close one of the windows by clicking Close (the X in the upper-right corner) or by pressing Ctrl+W, Excel doesn’t automatically resize the other open windows to fill in the gap. Likewise, if you create another window by clicking the New Window command button on the View tab, Excel doesn’t automatically arrange it in with the others.\nTo fill in the gap created by closing a window or to integrate a newly opened window into the current arrangement, click the Arrange command button to open the Arrange Windows dialog box and click OK or press Enter. (The button you selected last time is still selected; if you want to choose a new arrangement, select a new button before you click OK.)\nDon’t try to close a particular worksheet window by choosing File→Close or by pressing Alt+FC because you’ll only succeed in closing the entire workbook file, getting rid of all the worksheet windows you created!\nWhen you save your workbook, Excel saves the current window arrangement as part of the file. If you don’t want to save the current window arrangement, close all but one of the windows. 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When you have a large file, especially a large spreadsheet in Excel, it's extremely helpful to view two parts of the file at once. This video discusses how to open two windows for one file, arrange them side by side, and scroll them side by side.
Peter Weverka is a veteran For Dummies author. In addition to previous books on Microsoft Office, Peter has written guides to Windows, the Internet, and Quicken.
