Workbook View / Appearance - Colors

[Guest]

I've seen some users with different colored excel workbooks. One person in
another office has a black backround with white fonts. How do I customize
how excel looks on my computer? ~Thanks

 

[Gord Dibben]

Open a new workbook. Customize as you wish.

Select all sheets by right-click on a sheet tab and "select all sheets" then on
active sheet hit CTRL + a(twice in 2003) to select all cells then format to
black background and white text.

Select a single cell then right-click again on sheet tab and "ungroup sheets".

File>Save As Type: scroll down to Excel Template(*.XLT) and select. Name your
workbook "BOOK"(no quotes). Excel will add the .XLT to save as BOOK.XLT.

Store this workbook in the XLSTART folder usually located at........

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

This will be the default workbook for File>New or the Toolbar button File>New or
CTRL + n

WARNING................Do not use File>New...Blank Workbook or you will get the
Excel default workbook.

NOTE: Existing workbooks are not affected by these settings.

You can also open a new workbook and delete all but one sheet. Customize as
you wish then save this as SHEET.XLT in XLSTART folder also. It now becomes
the default Insert>Sheet.

More can be found on this in Help under "templates"(no quotes).


Gord Dibben Excel MVP