Using Parallels, Win 7 and Excel 2010-- Excel restores itself immediately after being minimized

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I'm using Excel 2010 in Windows 7, through Parallels on Mac OS X. Some times, when I go to minimize Excel, after the minimization animation, Excel immediately restores itself.

How can I fix this without closing and re-opening Excel?

RLH

Posted 2014-05-22T13:22:16.500

Reputation: 3 525

Answers

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I'm not sure what is causing this bug (either Parallels or Excel) but I've found that it only occurs while I'm in Coherence mode. For a long time, I would close Excel and re-open it. This isn't a big deal if one spreadsheet is open, but if you are floating between 5+ documents, this can be annoying.

The easiest solution I have found is to exit Coherence mode in Parallels, minimize Excel (it should work properly) and then re-enter Coherence mode. From that point on, minimization of Excel should function properly, at least for a little while.

RLH

Posted 2014-05-22T13:22:16.500

Reputation: 3 525