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76 Designer Spreadsheets
If you select the Blank Workbook template, you can start laying out and building your new spreadsheet in the blank worksheet. If you select one of the other designed templates, you can start by customizing the workbook file’s design as well as entering the data for your new spreadsheet.
Take it from a template
Spreadsheet templates are the way to go if you can find one that uses the design of the spreadsheet that you want to build. There are many templates to choose from when you initially launch Excel. (See Figure 1-1.) The tem- plates displayed on the Excel screen in the Backstage view run the gamut from budgets and schedules to profit and loss statements, sales reports, and calendars.
If none of the templates displayed on the Excel screen fit the bill, you can then search for templates. This screen contains links to common search cat- egories: Budget, Invoice, Calendars, Expense, List, Loan, and Schedule.
When you click one of these links, a New screen appears in the Backstage
view showing your choices in that particular category. Figure 1-2 shows you the New screen that appears when you click the Invoice link in the Suggested Searches area of the Start screen. As you can see in this figure, you can narrow your choices of invoice templates by selecting one or more of the subcatego- ries shown in the Category list box on the right side of the New screen.
Figure 1-1:
Selecting
a template from which to generate a new workbook in the Excel Start screen.