While there is a way for you to open two Excel workbooks at the same time, you can also open separate files in separate windows. In this article, we will be discussing 4 ways in which you can do so.

If you launch multiple files by double-clicking their shortcut icons, or via the "Open" menu in Excel, the files will run simultaneously in one Excel window.

Open Excel, go to the File menu, click "Open" and locate your file. Hold down the "Shift" key while you click "Open," and continue holding it until the workbook finishes loading.

How to open a .csv file in Excel Opening a .csv file is as easy as opening a .txt file, and usually, you won’t have to clean up the data before doing so because the save task inserts the delimiter.