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While working an a fairly large Excel 2000 file, call it myfile.xls, when I clicked File>Window I saw "myfile.xls:1" and "myfile.xls:2". Closing and opening Excel does not change that. There are still 2 files appearing when I click File>Window.


How did I get 2 files and are they different? They don't appear to be.
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I think they're numbered windows of the same workbook. Close one of them and those numbers should disappear.
Here, my file is called Data-13.xlsx, one window shows
Data-13.xlsx - 1
the other shows
Data-13.xlsx - 2
I'm guessing this is the equivalent of what you're seeing. (I'm on Office 365)
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