Wazooli, do you close and reopen Excel after you make the changes and what
do you mean by clicling the appropriate button. If it is sheets you are
adding to a woorkbook you need to save the changes to sheet.xlt, so that any
sheets you add will have the formatting you want.

Greg
"Wazooli" wrote in message
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I have been reading several posts concerning modifying the default
template,
but I have as yet not gotten this to work. I have saved "book.xlt" to
both
XLStart folders, and still, when I click the appropriate button, my
modifications are not present. I have become weary of constanly making
the
same changes to formatting, etc..., and would like to have the equivalent
of
Word's "normal.dot" . Any help is appreciated.