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devilishlygood
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Mar 27, 2019
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excel workbooks on taskbar

Please somebody help me - I am tearing my hair out!  I have a new laptop running windows 10 which I am struggling to get used to. It is just awful!  I use Excel a lot and have up to 10 separate wor...
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    Mar 27, 2019

    devilishlygood 

    SORTED!!!

     After Googling many variations of words appertaining to what I wanted I finally found the answer:-

    https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-disable-taskbar-button-grouping-2626110

    Basically right click on empty space on taskbar and select 'Taskbar Settings'.

    After a load of switchable buttons at the top, there is then 2 rectangular boxes with drop-down menu's and on the second one, from the drop down menu (headed 'combine taskbar buttons') choose 'Never' - and job done! All workbooks now have their own tabs on the taskbar.

     Just what the doctor ordered!!!!!

     So simple once you know how!