You're welcome. It really WAS a lot of effort, Janet. I had to move my
coffee cup in order to type. pant...pant..pant....


"Jitty" wrote in message
...
doug
Once again, thanks for putting so much effort into your reply. I really
appreciate it (I need all the help I can get with Excel!)
Best regards
Janet


"Doug Kanter" wrote:

You used a different name. If you want the template to be the one Excel
defaults to when you simply want a new, blank sheet, you must name it
"sheet.xlt". You can give other templates any name you want, but for that
special sheet, the name is important. The instructions I copied came from
the Excel 2000 help system. Not sure if later versions are different, so
check your help thing. I simply put the words "default template" in the
search window, and came up with these instructions.

"Jitty" wrote in message
...
Doug
Thanks for your help with this. I'm sure I followed all of these steps
correctly, but I will double-check.
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply.
Regards
Janet


"Doug Kanter" wrote:


"Janet T" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me how I can create a worksheet template, with the
fonts,
layout, etc that I specify, that will be inserted into a workbook
when
I
click Insert/Worksheet? I have already tried creating a single
sheet
document, which I have saved as an .xlt file in C:\Program
Files\Microsoft
Office\Office10\XLStart, but this wasn't picked up when I used the
Insert
command. I saved the file as 'worksheet template.xlt'.
Thanks for your help.
Janet




Straight from the Excel help system, accessible from your menu:

Create a sheet template for new worksheets
1.. Create a workbook that contains one worksheet. On the worksheet,
include the formatting, styles, text, and other information you want
to
appear on all new sheets of the same type.


2.. On the File menu, click Save As.
Show Me

3.. In the Save as type box, click Template (*.xlt).


4.. In the Save in box, select the folder where you want to store
the
template.
To create the default worksheet template, select either the XLStart
folder
or the alternate startup folder. The XLStart folder is usually
C:\os\Profiles\user_name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLStart
where os is the operating system folder - for example, Windows.

To create a custom sheet template, select the Templates folder,
which
is
usually
C:\os\Profiles\user_name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
where os is the operating system folder - for example, Windows.

5.. In the File name box, type sheet to create a template for
default
worksheets.
To create a custom sheet template, type any valid file name.

6.. Click Save, and then click Close on the File menu