It's the way the products work. Same thing happens on a desktop. Even if you open the second excel by double-clicking on an XLS file. You temporarily get a new excel.exe process, but then it notices the first one and "transfers the request" to the first and terminates. Each office app behaves in its own strange way. Tim Mangan _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Matheis Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:54 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] File Open in Excel does not open a new session of Excel We are running W2K3 servers with Citrix XP FR3 and MS Office XP. We are using flex profiles as well. When a user selects File/Open and opens a new file in Excel it adds it to the open Excel session instead of opening a second Excel session. Word does open a new session each time. In Excel the Tools\Options\View\Windows in Taskbar is already checked and has no impact. Any ideas? Thanks Jeff Matheis Kimball International, Inc. 812-482-8302 jmathei@xxxxxxxxxxx