Separate window in Office 2007

When you are working with office 2007 and lets say you want to open two documents, if you double click the document it will open both in the same application window. Which is fine and dandy, unless you want to compare the two side by side.

In the past you could create a separate instance of the application by launching it twice. Launch excel, open the file you want then launch excel again and open the other file you want to compare too. But it seems that office 2007 is even "smarter" and will catch the second launch event opening the new document inside the same application... :(

So is there anyway to be able to compare two office documents? Particularly power point. You would think since dual monitor sets are becoming more and more the norm for an office space that this option would be more readily available but so far i haven't found anything.

When I launch excel, open my file, then launch another excel, it does come up as a separate process.

You're right excel will do that, but power point doesn't. :(

Im not 100% sure whether this trick would work but you could try and do this:

Under the view tab there should be an option where it says windows group (cant remember exactly what it is called, i dont use ppt07). Under that select Arrange all.
This should show your ppt files side by side as you wanted but still inside one ppt window (unfortunately!) but this way you could compare the two side by side.

Hope this helps

Regards,

You can't have multiple instances of Powerpoint running.

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00497.htm

in the end, i just stretched the power point window over both my screens and then changed the view to cascade, and put one on each side. :(