MSWord has Normal.dot.

Excel has book.xlt. It's a workbook that's set up the way you want and saved as
a template in your XLStart folder.

Excel also has a sheet.xlt template workbook. It's used when you add a new
worksheet to an existing workbook.

If you want to find out where that folder is:

Open excel
hit alt-f11 to get to the VBE (where macros live)
hit ctrl-g to see the immediate window.
type this and hit enter:
?application.StartupPath

For me (winXP and xl2003), I get:
C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

Scott wrote:

Hello all.
I am trying to find out what the default Excel document is. Word has the
default.dat but what does Excel have? I have a user who had a problem and the
tech who "fixed" the problem replaced the default document with two other
documents. I have cleared out the XLSTART folder and that didnt work.

Please, any and all replies welcome and appreciated.

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Dave Peterson