Windows 10: Different taskbar appearance depending on the number of tabs open

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Some but not all Excel workbooks appear in taskbar.


I have for example, five Excel workbooks open, four will appear in the taskbar when I hover over the Excel icon and one will not. This happens pretty much every day and with a wide variety of Excel files, not the same ones. I have not noticed the same issue with other programs but must admit I rarely would have multiple files open from other programs.

I have tried every option suggested on forums that I have read including unticking and reticking the box in Excel advanced options to 'show all windows in taskbar', also right clicking on the taskbar to 'never combine' (and although this is not really what I'm after, the workbook will not show in the taskbar either). None of these make any difference.

I have also tried opening the files from the open button, from the recently used files list and from the folder they are stored in but this makes no difference.

When I 'alt-tab through the open screens, the workbook that I cannot see from the taskbar will always show as the very last item after every other screen from every other program I have open, even when it is the last item I have looked at.

It's driving me mad as in my work I always have to switch back and forth between spreadsheets.
Can anyone help or has anyone else come across the same problem?

 

Typing numbers in Paint appear in different sizes.

Hi Maria Teresadel Castillo1,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community.

Appreciate your efforts to work on this issue.

• Are you aware of any changes made to the MS paint settings prior to this issue?
  

Follow these steps to check if that helps.

1. Open MS paint.
   
2. In the Home tab, click the Text tool which has the ‘A’ symbol.
   
3. Click inside the blank image, a text box will be displayed inside the blank image, for you to add text or numbers.
   
4. To insert text, type in the text box and click anywhere else on the page when you're done.
   
5. Once you see the text box, you will also see additional options to select the font, font size and other options. You can either select the same font size for all numbers or you can also change the font size for each number as
   you desire.
   

The Text tab opens automatically when you place the text box, and from there you can select a font, text size, color and other options such as bold, underlined, italic and strikethrough text formats. You can also make the text box opaque if you want.

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Srimadhwa B

Microsoft Community-Moderator

 

Taskbar: I want the active tab to look different from the other tabs

I'm not expert on this but it might depend upon theme choice.

Example:

No highlight for active tab so cannot tell which is the active one.




Using a basic theme and the active tab shows up with a lighter background: