Is PowerPoint still a single instance app?

[Howard Kaikow]

Hi Howard,

I just ran a couple of quick tests on 2002 and 2003 and can't get a new instance of Powerpoint to launch with code from an existing one - which is a shame simce running another instance of an app in the background can be useful sometimes. Oh well, them's the breaks...

The critical question is:

Do I not need to know whether the single instance of Powerpoint is being
used by another user, even if I created the instance within the code?

I might create an instance of Powerpoint in code, and some user might start a Powerpoint session outside the code, so I cannot safely kill the instance I created.