On the next screen, click on the Clear button next to “At startup, open all files in:” entry. On Excel Preferences screen, click on the General icon.Ĥ. Click on the Excel tab in top menu bar and select Preferences in the drop-down menu.ģ. Open Microsoft Excel on your Mac and wait as it stutters and tries to open or recover files.Ģ. The problem of Excel automatically opening several files upon startup can be fixed by clearing the path to the Startup Files in Excel General Preferences.ġ. While the second method offers a definite cure to the problem, it disables your Microsoft Excel login credentials on Mac and requires you to login back to Microsoft Excel. It is recommended that you try the first method, before moving to the second one. You will find below two different methods to fix the problem of Excel opening multiple files on Mac. There’s no warning, no errors just 8 workbooks opening every time I open Excel…. Save the template.These problems have frustrated many Excel users on Mac, prompting them to seek for a solution from experts and others users on Microsoft support Forums. Set the File Format field to Excel Macro-Enabled Template (.xltm). Note the path and go back to File > Save As. If you have trouble finding this you can exit out of the Save As and go to File > Save as Template and it will navigate you to the correct Library area where you can then find the Startup > Excel folder. For me this was a Users > username > Library > Group Containers > UBF8T346G9.Office > User Content > Startup > Excel. Navigate to your Excel startup directory. I'm not sure if this is necessary or not, but I did it based on some other documentation I found.Ĭlick File > Save As. In my case I simply changed the zoom to 150%. Make the adjustments you need to make to the template. Open a new Excel document or existing template. I finally found the solution in this support article from Microsoft under the "Use a custom template for all new workbooks" section: I was struggling with this for Microsoft Excel for Mac (Office 365, Version 16.38, around May 2020). You should now find the default workbook has all the customisations you made at Steps 6 & 7. xltx extension at the end of the file name, then manually remove the. ( Note: when saving the file, if Excel has placed the. Save the workbook as an Excel template, making sure you use the name "workbook", and make sure it's saved in the xlstart folder you created at Step 1.While you're at it, you can also customise a whole heap of other attributes if you like.Open a new workbook and customise your Zoom setting to 150%.For open all files in set the xlstart folder you created at Step 1 as the path.Go to Preferences > General > At startup.You can create this folder anywhere, but I prefer doing it within the Documents folder.
On your Mac create a new folder called "xlstart".In the interests of providing alternatives, I thought I'd share my preferred method as well: I've also seen a number of different ways people have used to achieve a totally customised default workbook.
#Excel 2016 for mac opens workbook how to
There is a lot of confusion around how to do this, not just because it's changed from Excel 2011 to Excel 2016, but also because the process has even changed during Excel 2016's lifecycle.
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