From the Taskbar
- Make sure you don't have Excel currently open
- Right-click the Excel icon in the taskbar and select "Open Excel 2010"
- Right-click the Excel icon in the taskbar again and select "Open Excel 2010"
- You should now have two windows with blank Excel spreadsheets.
- Select File, then Open, and then the file you want to open in each window.
From the Desktop
Note: the desktop icon you use must be to the Excel program itself, not an Excel spreadsheet
- Make sure you don't have Excel currently open
- Right-click the Excel icon on the desktop and select "Open Excel 2010"
- Right-click the Excel icon on the desktop again and select "Open Excel 2010"
- You should now have two windows with blank Excel spreadsheets.
- Select File, then Open, and then the file you want to open in each window.