Hope someone can help. Having upgraded from Excel 2010 to Excel 2013 I have an extremely annoying feature/bug in Excel 2013 when I create a new workbook. Please note that you must follow these steps to recreate this:
- To fully understand my problem, first create a workbook either in Excel 2010 or using Excel 2010's theme colors. Insert graphs or fill effects with plenty of color on a worksheet.
- Right click the worksheet's tab, and click Move or Copy.
- Set up the settings on the dialog box so it creates a copy of the worksheet in a new workbook - "To book" should be set to "(new book)" and tick the "Create a copy" option.
- Click OK. In the new workbook, you will see (if you've used the right colors) that the Excel 2013 palette is used instead of the Excel 2010 palette, and colors are randomly changed, while some stay the same.
I've looked very thoroughly into the reason for this, and it seems to be that Excel 2013 by default uses the "Blank Workbook" template that is featured on its "templates" screen. What I want to do is either (a) find a way to edit this workbook or (b) change the settings (even via Regedit if necessary) to force Excel to open a different workbook template by default. Or (c) any other workaround that anyone can suggest?
Edit: just one thing I forgot to add - when you follow my step (1), make sure you use theme colors to create the color effects. One thing I have found rather annoying is where I have used fill effects with two colors in one cell - and one color is a theme color and the other one is a standard color - which results in one color staying the same and the other color changing!
I am aware that I could just change all the colors on my old workbooks to standard fixed colors instead of theme colors but I would rather not have to do this.