You can hide/show lots of things by using:

tools|options|view tab

And making choices there.

I'm not sure you're going to find anything like skins in excel.

haabs wrote:

I'm trying to change the general appearance of Excel (not the cells, not
which buttons appear on the toolbars) just the overall appearance of Excel.
Something like what would be called a "skin" in other applications.

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Dave Peterson