RE: excel spreadsheet
Hello Deirdre,
Thank you for your post, welcome to the forum, in response to your question there are a number of choices you can make, the most obvious is to open a brand new Workbook, to do this you can use the command File>New, the keyboard command CTRL+N or press the New Workbook icon, a little white sheet of paper (on the Standard Toolbar).
If you have chosen to use the File>New command you will open the Task Pane and from the Task Pane you will be able to select from a number of Templates (pre-prepared Workbooks).
Setting up the Workbook to your requirements is then up to you and or your company layout.
I hope that has helped, if so please click the resolved link, regards Pete