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Step 1 - What is the Spreadsheet Solutions Tab?

There are a few templates built in which can be found by pressing (File > New) , General Templates and then "Spreadsheet Solutions"

The templates often contain useful information and are worth opening and having a look at.

Most templates come with a few formulas already set up and have a lot formatting applied to them to give them a professional look and feel.

There is another tab "spreadsheet solutions" that contains some templates that could be useful.

Excel provides a number of templates as standard for some common tasks.

Step 2 - Available Templates

Step 3 - Built-in Templates Folder

Installed templates can be found in the following folder:

Excel 2003 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\

Excel 2002 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\

Excel 2000 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\

Excel 97 -

The built-in templates can be found in the following location:

Once you have created your template using (File > Open) will open the actual template as opposed to a file created from it.

Step 4 - Things to Remember