Microsoft Excel is probably the best tool if you want to create an invoice, report card or almost anything which involves numbers. Everybody uses Excel, either offline or online. This Microsoft tool has been helping different types of people – from regular office employees to students. Excel now comes with some beautiful templates which can spruce up your spreadsheet. However, no matter what version of Microsoft Excel you use, you get only one worksheet in one workbook. If you want to change the default number of worksheets in an Excel workbook, here is a trick.
When you start Excel on your computer, you will find only one sheet. Let’s assume that you want to create a report for students that requires multiple worksheets. You can click on the “New Sheet” button to create a new sheet. But what if you need to create multiple reports of say thirty or forty students? If you go to click on the New Sheet button every time, you will end up wasting a lot of time. If you need to open multiple worksheets when you open Excel, you can easily change a setting.
How to change default number of Worksheets in Excel
Microsoft Excel can make this change easily on its own. For your information, you cannot do the same with Excel Online. Therefore, the following trick is based on the desktop version. More specifically, this method has been carried out on Microsoft Excel 2016. However, it seems, it will work smoothly in Excel 2013 as well.
To change the default number of worksheets in Excel, follow these steps:
- Open Excel and click on the File menu.
- Select the Options.
- Ensure that you are in the General tab.
- Find the When creating new workbooks menu.
- Head to the Include this many sheets option.
- Enter a number from 1 to 255.
- Click the OK button.
To learn more about these steps, continue reading.
To get started, open Microsoft Excel on your computer.Go to File and select Options. Make sure you are on the General tab. Here, you should see a heading called When creating new workbooks.
Under it, you will find Include this many sheets. By default, it should 1. Remove it and enter a number from 1 to 255.
Having done this, you will need to restart your Excel. After opening it, you will find as many worksheets as you have selected.
For your information, this trick doesn’t work on templates. You have to select Blank workbook when starting the Excel app on your computer to utilize this trick.
Can you change the number of default worksheets tabs?
Yes, you can change the default number of worksheets tabs in Excel. Although it displays only one worksheet, by default, you can change it to almost anything. For that, you need to open Excel and open the Options panel. Then, find out the Include this many sheets setting in the General tab and enter a number of worksheets you want. Following that, whenever you will open Excel, it will display the predefined number of worksheets.
How do I increase the number of worksheets in a workbook?
As mentioned in the article, Excel displays only one worksheet in each workbook. However, you can increase the number of worksheets in a workbook to two, three, four, or anything else. For that, click the File > Options. Then, ensure that you are in the General tab. If so, find out the Include this many sheets setting. Enter a number in the corresponding box and click the OK button.
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