Excel 2016 Introduction

Lesson – Using Basic Workbook Skills

Excel 2016

If a message box opens, asking if you want to save the changes to the current workbook, select No .

C REATING A N EW W ORKBOOK  D ISCUSSION

When you start Excel, it opens with several options available including a new, blank workbook. Excel labels this workbook as Book1 in the application title bar. This blank workbook is based on a Template called Blank Workbook , which contains a variety of pre-defined settings such as margins, numeric formats, and font type and size. All workbooks are based on templates. Template files have the extension .xltx and are stored in a different location from your workbook files. When you save the workbook, the template file remains unchanged and ready for you to create more workbooks based on the template.

Additional new, blank workbooks created within a single Excel session are successively labeled Book2 , Book3 , and so on in sequence.

The Blank Workbook template is an all-purpose template used to create new, blank workbooks or as a starting point for creating new templates.

Create a new workbook

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