/excel-new-instance

Launch Excel in a new instance

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

Excel (new instance).app

Launch Excel in a new instance

This is macOS application that launches Excel in a new instance.

Use case

The only real use case of this app is to have different undo buffers, which allows for undo operations on a spreadhseet without impact on the other loaded spreadheets.

Installation

Download excel-new-instance.zip, extract, and drag the app Excel (new instance).app to Applications.

Usage

  1. Right-click on an Excel file and select Open with > Excel (new instance)
  2. Or launch Excel (new instance) and open or create a new file

Shortcoming

New instances will complain about recovered workbooks:

Open recovered workbooks? Your recent changes were saved. Do you want to continue working where you left off?

Click [No] otherwise the new instance will open the file currently opened in the already running instance.

Dev

This app was created with Platypus

License and copyright

This project is MIT-licensed.

The Excel icon is copyright Microsoft