You can add sheets easily by pressing ctrl and dragging the tab for the
sheet at the bottom.  That makes a copy.  You can also right-click a tab and
choose insert to create a blank sheet.  Shift-F11 will insert a blank
worksheet.
Usually Excel opens with 3 worksheets, but you can change that in
Tools>Options, General Tab and at "Sheets in new workbook:" click the spin
button or type in the number of worksheets you would like Excel to open with
by default.  I have seen people change this to 30 sheets and only use one,
then send the bloated file with 29 blank sheets, so use good judgement on
this.