Add More Sheets to the Workbook

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To organize your data, you can add more sheets to a workbook. These can be other worksheets; for example, one worksheet might contain a quarterly summary, and others could provide detailed data for each month of the quarter. Another kind of sheet you can add is a chart sheet, which displays data graphically.

Need to work with a lot of sheets?   The number of sheets you can add to a workbook is limited only by available system memory. A new workbook contains three worksheets by default, but you can change this setting. Click Options (Tools menu). On the General tab, specify your preference, between 1 and 255, in the Sheets in new workbook box.

Give workbook sheets meaningful names   Named tabs can help you locate sheets in your workbook. Double-click the tab at the bottom of the window, and type the name you want.