Comments on: How to Open Visio Diagrams in Multiple Program Windows

By: User

User — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:01:43 +0000

No need to make any registry changes.

Here is how you go about it:

> Open your first file
> Go to start menu and open Visio again – this should open a new window by default
> You can verify this by going to task manager and you should see two instances of Visio.Exe process running
> From the second window, use File > Open option to open your second file

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:12:16 +0000

I stand corrected…somehow the “Singleinstance…” was reset to “1″. After changing to “0″ this worked as directed. Thank you!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:09:07 +0000

Same as Alex…does not work in Visio 2007.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:39:28 +0000

Doesn’t work in Visio 2007. Changing SingleInstanceFileOpen’ option does not do anything.

By: Krishna

Krishna — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:57:30 +0000

Sorry for the confusion.. I did not save the changes to the Options.. It works like a charm now

By: Krishna

Krishna — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:51:26 +0000

The ‘SingleInstanceFileOpen’ option is not avialable for me in the Registry. Please advise.

Regards,
Krishna