How to Create a Workbook in Excel? Step-by-Step Guide

Are you interested to know about how to create a workbook in Excel application? This guide is for you! You will learn to create a new workbook in the Microsoft Excel application. After learning how to create a workbook in Excel, you’ll be able to streamline your workflow, enhance efficiency, and make well decisions based on accurate data insights. It is essential for professionals, students, and individuals.

Workbook is the main work area for your data analysis and management. Whether you’re making a budget sheet, organizing a new or old project, or analyzing complex datasets, the workbook is your dynamic space to enter your data and show reports and information. A well-defined workbook enables you to collect, organize, visualize, and manipulate data with ease and professionalism.

How to Create a Workbook in Excel?

Below are the step-by-step procedure for you to create new workbook in Microsoft Excel application.

Steps:

• Open Microsoft Excel on your computer using the basic steps described in the previous lesson.
• Once Excel is opened, you’ll typically see a blank worksheet. If not, click on the “File” menu located in the top-left corner of the Excel window.
• Select “New” to start a new workbook.
• In the New Workbook options, select the “Blank Workbook.“
• You can see the above screenshot to make it easy.

Explore Workbook Tabs:

Familiarize yourself with the tabs at the bottom of the screen, labeled Sheet1, Sheet2, etc. Each tab represent individual sheet within your workbook. You can navigate between sheets by clicking on the respective tab. Each sheet present the separate work area for you.

Save Your Workbook:

• After opening the workbook, it’s a good practice to save your workbook on your computer with the meaningful name.
• Click on the “File” menu in the top-left corner and choose the “Save As” option. Select the location where you want to save the file, and give a meaningful name to your workbook. OR

Shortcut: Using the shortcut, press (Ctrl button + S) from the keyboard.

Start Data Entry in the Workbook:

Now if you want to enter data in your worksheet. Click on the desired cell where you want to start entering data. As you know, Excel is organized into columns (labeled A, B, C, etc.) and rows (labeled 1, 2, 3, etc.). Simply click on a cell and begin typing.

Congratulations! Following the above steps you’ve learned and successfully created a workbook in Excel. Now you’re ready to explore more features and tools of Microsoft Excel for effective data management in the next lessons. I hope you will enjoy.