It's called normal.dotm. To edit it:

Select the big round Office button

Select Open

Select Templates

Select (double-click) the Normal template

The Normal template should open. Make changes as you would to any Word
document. Any changes you make will be applied to all new documents. When
youre done making changes to the Normal template, click Save on the Quick
Access toolbar.

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Susan Ramlet
**please reply to the newsgroup so others may benefit**


"JSF" wrote in message
...
Thank you for the valuable info Gord.

I fixed the problem by creating a custom template using Tweak UI.

Btw, C:\Windows\ShellNew folder contains the Excel and PowerPoint
templates,
but not the Word template. Do you know where I can find that one? I
searched the entire C: drive for .docx files but no template was found.

Thank you.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

The default workbook for Right-clickNewMicrosoft Office Excel Worksheet
is
found in C:\Windows\ShellNew folder.

Named EXCEL12.XLSX

Replace this file by opening Excel first and creating a new workbook with
the desired formatting.

Save as to the name and path as above.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:53:01 -0700, JSF
wrote:

Thank you for your suggestion, Susan.

I am aware of that option and I've tried it before, only to find out
that it
doesn't do the trick. This option ONLY affects new worksheets created
from
WITHIN another worksheet, by selecting Office Button New. The option
does
NOT affect new worksheets created from the "new" template.
Needless to say that setting is useless. Having to open a worksheet in
order to CREATE A NEW worksheet is absolutely counterintuitive.

As I said before, I create new worksheets from the "new" templates by
righ-clicking and selecting new excel spreadsheet (logical).
Unfortunately,
the template always starts in Calibri (Body) 11 font, regardless of the
setting in the options.