MCM 2011-08-24 02:41
I am running Excel 2003 on Win7-64 and have 5 monitors. I have several excel files that I want to open at the same time and designate to specific monitors. I have written a batch file which opens each of the excel files in a new instance of the program. Ultramon is making life much easier to quickly move these spreadsheets to the monitor I need them each on. I have been trying to find a workaround to have Ultramon automatically put these on the designated monitor with shortcuts. Problem is, if I make a batch file to open new instance of Excel and "open with" this program anytime I open an excel file, then I can't use the Ultramon shortcut. Any ideas on how to accomplish both - open files in separate excel instance AND designate monitor?
MCM
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Christian Studer 2011-08-24 08:13
If you're always working with the same files, you could create new UltraMon shortcuts which run a command like this:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Temp\My Excel file.xls"
This will open the file in a new instance of Excel, which can then be positioned via UltraMon as desired.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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MCM 2011-08-25 07:23
Thank you. I completely missed that I could add a script into the shortcut. Got that to work. Now, can I write a batch or is there a function to launch multiple shortcuts at one time so that I can open all five shortcuts with one click?
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MCM 2011-08-25 07:27
Wait - I think I found your answer already. Did a Google search and found this post from 2006.
Christian Studer 2006-12-13 15:27
There's no direct support for this, but you could set this up manually.
To do this, first create a new UltraMon shortcut for each application you want to launch via UltraMon menu > Shortcuts.
Then create a new batch file, and set it up to launch each of the shortcuts you created.
The command to launch a shortcut should look like this:
"%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\UltraMonShortcuts.exe" /l C:\Documents and Settings\Christian\Application Data\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\Shortcuts\test.umshortcut
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MCM 2011-08-25 07:37
Yes - That did it. I am very happy to get this working this way, it is just what we needed.
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