Excel doesn't open window in size last closed

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In Excel 2007 when I opened a new sheet it opened in a window that was the same size and in same position as the last window I closed. In Excel 2013 every time each new sheet is opened in a small window positioned in the lower left quadrant. I open multiple windows a day and having to resize each one is very time consuming.

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Hello Mike,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting the question.

Excel usually remembers the size and the position of the last opened Excel file.

Let’s re-size the Excel window and verify the result

Open Excel and click on restore button which appears upper right corner of the screen between x(close) and _ (minimize) buttons.
Now drag the double ended arrow which appears in the corner and re-size accordingly.
You may also move it by dragging it by the title bar, now close and re-open Excel and verify the result.

Hope it helps. Reply with the result for further assistance.

Thank You.

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I just switched to MS Office 2013 (forced to because of a new work laptop that had MS Office 2013 installed).

I had this issue (Excel file opening in a half window) with some, but not all of my existing files.

I was able to fix this for all of my windows that opened in a "half window", by clicking on "New Window" in the "View" tab, and then saving the workbook. When I re-opened, the issue was gone. I have no idea why this works, and it seems counter-intuitive to click "New Window" to get an existing window out of a "half-window" display. All I know is that it fixed my problem files (about a dozen). I hope this works for others as well.

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2014-09-19T21:11:05+00:00

I just switched to MS Office 2013 (forced to because of a new work laptop that had MS Office 2013 installed).

I had this issue (Excel file opening in a half window) with some, but not all of my existing files.

I was able to fix this for all of my windows that opened in a "half window", by clicking on "New Window" in the "View" tab, and then saving the workbook. When I re-opened, the issue was gone. I have no idea why this works, and it seems counter-intuitive to click "New Window" to get an existing window out of a "half-window" display. All I know is that it fixed my problem files (about a dozen). I hope this works for others as well.

This works amazingly well! I've been searching for a fix to this problem for a couple hours. I was able to get the issue to go away if I disable all of the Excel Add-ins. But I use several of the add-ins on a regular basis so that's not an option. This is the oddest problem, don't know how you figured it out but THANKS!
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2014-09-13T11:29:44+00:00

I too am having the same annoying issue with the small window for ss2 and subsequent spreadsheets. I tried Martin's fix going to View-->New Window and it did not work for me. I did not have this problem initially with Office 2013; now I do. I am running on Windows 8.0. Microsoft, help!
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