I have Office 2004 for Mac on my Macbook. I recently upgraded to Leopard OS.
Now when I open a new Excel worksheet, it opens with 3 columns and 19 rows.
How can I get it back to the normal sheet when it opens?

First, you may be interested to know that there's a newsgroup just for
Mac XL:

microsoft.public.mac.office.excel


Upgrading to Leopard, by itself, should have had zero effect on how a
file displays on opening. It could be that you deleted the standard
font, so that XL is substituting a font with different metrics. Or you
could have changed screen resolutions such that the sheet is limited.

You don't say what "normal sheet" means to you, so I don't know what you
think it should look like, but the best way to get a consistent view is
to create a default workbook.

Open a fresh workbook. Size it the way you want, and change formatting
to suit your tastes. Save it in XL's Startup folder (by default

HD:Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Office:Startup:Excel:

though you can change it in XL's Preferences/General dialog).

The file must be saved *as a template* with the name "Workbook" (no
quotes, no extension). From then on, the File/New command will use that
workbook as a template for your new files.


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radar wrote:

I have Office 2004 for Mac on my Macbook. I recently upgraded to Leopard OS.
Now when I open a new Excel worksheet, it opens with 3 columns and 19 rows.
How can I get it back to the normal sheet when it opens?