What Is a Template?

Templates provide a pattern and tools for creating a variety of workbooks. A template can help you create workbooks that are consistent, and can help you customize your workbooks to suit a particular need. If you create a weekly expense report and you don't want to re-create the entire report each week, you can save one of your reports as a customized template and then insert new numbers in the basic format each week.

Template ” Generic, model workbook that might consist of basic formatting, styles, text, numbers, and graphics.

Each newly created workbook must be based on a template. When you create a new workbook, Excel bases it on the default template called WORKBOOK.XLT .