How to Open 2 Excel Files at the Same Time on the Screen

This guide explains how to open 2 Excel Files at the Same Time on the Screen, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

Here's how to open 2 Excel files at the same time on the screen, and how to open 2 Excel files into 2 computer screens, please follow along.

Open 2 Excel files at the same time on the screen

For Microsoft Excel 2013 and 2016, you can open 2 or more Excel files directly by double clicking on the file you want to open.

For lower versions of Excel to open 2 Excel files at the same time on the screen, you need to do the following:

Step 1: Open the first Excel file on your computer as usual.

Step 2: Under the Excel icon in the Taskbar, hold down the Shift key and click the left mouse button to open a new Excel window.

Then you select File -> Open and select the folder containing the 2nd Excel file that you want to open at the same time as the first Excel file.

So you will open 2 Excel files at the same time on the screen as shown below.

To open 2 Excel files in 2 parts of the computer screen, you can do the following:

Step 1: On the first Excel file window, click and hold the file and drag the mouse pointer to the left edge of the computer screen (or Windows + key combination

Thus the Excel file will be scaled down and fit to the left half of the screen.

Step 2: Next on the second Excel file, click and hold the file and drag the mouse to the right edge of the computer screen (or press Windows + -> (right arrow key)).

Thus the second Excel file will be scaled down to the right half of the screen.

Above the article has shown you how to open 2 Excel files at the same time on the screen. Hopefully through this article you will understand and can quickly open 2 Excel files no matter which version of Excel is used. Good luck!