Default headers & footers

[Guest]

Is it possible to change the default footer selections? I use the same footer for most of my Excel spreadsheets and also like to have the footer in a smaller size font that the body of the speadsheet. Setting up this "standard footer" through the custom header/footer process is a lot of keystrokes & mouse clicks. With a program this rich, there has to be a better way and it would be nifty if I could either modify one of the current footer selections or add a new one of my own. Is this possible?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Create a new workbook with the number of sheets, formatting, headers and
footers, etc. that you want.

Save the workbook *as a template*, named Book.xlt in your XLSTart
directory. From now on all new workbooks will have those settings.

Or just save it as a template in your templates directory and use it to
create new workbooks instead of the default.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

Also, if you want new sheets to be inserted with the same settings, you
can create a sheet template.

Follow the steps for creating a workbook template in the XLStart folder,
but:
-- create a workbook with only one sheet
-- save as Sheet.xlt

 

[Guest]

Thanks, JE, for the suggestion. I've created the template I want, and placed it in the XLSTart directory. However, the usual workbook opens when I start Excel, not the new template. Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?

FYI - I've created a shortcut to the new template & am using that to open Excel.

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[JE McGimpsey]

Did you save it *as an Excel Template* and name it "Book.xlt" (without
quotes)?

 

[Guest]

Yep.