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"(PeteCresswell)" writes:
Per Char Jackson:
One of my favorite and most-used features. I frequently have two or more
workbooks open at once and it's very useful to be able to move them
around to any of my 3 displays.

+1 - putting all the workbooks under a single window makes me crazy.

IIRC, in 2003 at least, there is a registry change one can make that cures
that problem and opens each workbook in it's own window.

Personally, I have been drifting towards LibreOffice 4.2 because it opens the
occasional .XLSX file I get.

Didn't Microsoft release a patch to open the .---x variants in earlier
Offices; I know they did for .docx.

Even so, I keep Office 2003 installed just for MS Access...
I prefer Excel 2003 because of the non-ribbon: I'm not _too_ bothered
about the ribbon itself, but it uses up vertical space on my monitor,
meaning I can't see as much of one particular spreadsheet (or have to
zoom out enough that it's very hard to read). [My main machine is this
laptop, which doesn't have multiple monitors.]
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