Using a Predefined Workbook

Wouldn’t it be great to have a workbook all set up and formatted for you so that all you’d have to do would be enter your information? Well, dream no more! When you use one of Excel’s existing templates, you don’t have to worry about structure and formatting—they’re already taken care of for you. Not only that, but many templates provide an extensive array of formulas and relationships already built into them that provide some powerful methods of data analysis.

Open and Use a Template

  1. Choose New from the Office menu to display the New Workbook dialog box.

  2. If you see a template you want, select it to preview it, and then ...

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