Start empty Excel workbook without any worksheets

Question

Creating a new Excel workbook as in:

Dim xl As Excel.Application
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Set xl = New Excel.Application
xl.Visible = False
Set wb = xl.Workbooks.Add

Is there an easy way to stop Excel automatically creating Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3?

I can always delete these unwanted sheets afterwards but that feels like a clunky solution.

Answer 1

xl.SheetsInNewWorkbook = 1

More Information on MSDN (Scroll down to Add method as it applies to the Workbooks object.)

Full Code:

Dim xl As Excel.Application
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Dim restoreSheetsInNewWorkbook As Long

Set xl =  New Excel.Application
restoreSheetsInNewWorkbook = xl.SheetsInNewWorkbook
xl.SheetsInNewWorkbook = 1

Set wb = xl.Workbooks.Add
xl.SheetsInNewWorkbook = restoreSheetsInNewWorkbook 'or just set it to 3'

Answer 2

Or you can:

Excel 2003 Tools>Options>General Tab and change the "Sheets in new workbook" to 1

Excel 2007 Office Button>Excel Options>Popular Section>When creating new workbooks...>Include this many sheets>1

Answer 3

Can't create one without any sheets (to the best of my knowledge), but you can create a workbook with a single sheet without messing around with the user's settings.

dim wb as Workbook
Set wb = xl.Workbooks.Add(xlWBATWorksheet)