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Insert New Worksheet in Excel

By Madhuri ThakurMadhuri Thakur | Reviewed By Dheeraj VaidyaDheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM

Insert New Worksheet In Excel

A worksheet is a sheet in a workbook. The workbook is a name of an excel file & that workbook contains one or more worksheets.

The worksheet is a single page inside a file, which is designed with an electronic spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. The worksheet is used to accumulate data or to work with data. We all know that in excel, we cannot work in a single worksheet as it has a limited number of cells and rows and columns. If we have to have a big database, we need to have multiple worksheets.

We also need to know how we should insert a new worksheet in excel on the existing worksheet. This has been explained above through various examples.

Insert New Worksheet in Excel

How to Insert a New Worksheet in Excel?

We have learned these ways to insert a worksheet in an excel file:

  1. Using Excel Shortcut Keys.
  2. Using Insert Tab

There are multiple ways to insert a new worksheet in excel. Inserting a new worksheet is quite simple.

Let us discuss it one by one with a few examples.

Example #1 – Shortcut Keys for Insert New Worksheet In Excel

There are two shortcut keys to insert a new worksheet in Excel; they are:

Alt + Shift Shortcut #1

Step #1 – Click on the ‘ALT” button from the keyboard & hold it.

Step #2 – Now click on the ‘shift’ button from the keyboard & hold it along with the ‘ALT’ button.

Step #3 – Click on the ‘F1’ key from the keyboard & then release it.

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Step #4 – Now release the alt and shift keys.

Now, a new worksheet will be added to an open workbook.

Shift + F11 Shortcut #2

Step #1 – Click on the ‘SHIFT” button from the keyboard & hold it.

Step #2 – Click on the ‘F11’ key from the keyboard & then release it.

Step #3 – Now release the shift key.

Now, a new worksheet will be added to an open workbook.

Example #2 – To Insert a New Worksheet Using the Mouse

Step #1 – In a workbook, you will find a ‘+’ sign at the bottom of the sheet highlighted in Dark Red.

Insert New Worksheet Example 1

Step #2 – Click on the ‘+’ sign to insert a new worksheet in excel, as shown in the below figure

Insert New Worksheet Example 1-1

Example #3

There is another way to insert a new worksheet in excel. Let us understand it with an example.

Step #1 – Open a new workbook, as shown in the below figure.

Insert New Worksheet Example 2

Step #2 – Now, right-click on the existing sheet named as ‘Sheet1’ by default

Insert New Worksheet Example 2-1

Step #3 – From the above image, click on the ‘INSERT’ option to insert anything, then you will get a pop up as shown below,

Insert New Worksheet Example 2-2

Step #4 – Now, Select the ‘Worksheet’ option in order to insert a new worksheet and then click on the ‘OK’ button.

Insert New Worksheet Example 2-3

From the above image, we can see that the second sheet, named ‘Sheet 2’ by default, is the sheet that was inserted by us using the third procedure.

Example #4

Let us see a new way to insert a new worksheet in excel, which is another easy and simplest way to insert a worksheet. In this procedure, we will use the INSERT option available in the Ribbon bar of an excel.

Let us understand it with the help of an example.

Step #1 – Open a new workbook, as shown in the below figure.

Insert New Worksheet Example 3

Step #2 – Click on the ‘Home’ tab available in the Ribbon bar of a workbook.

Insert New Worksheet Example 3-1

Step #3 – You will find an ‘Insert’ tab on the right side of a ribbon bar under the Home Tab.

Insert New Worksheet Example 3-2

Step #4 – Now, click on the ‘Insert’ icon available on the right side of the Ribbon bar, in order to open a drop-down list of options to be selected.

Insert New Worksheet Example 3-3

Step #5 – Now, you will find an ‘Insert Sheet’ option available at the end of the drop-down list.

Insert New Worksheet Example 3-4

Step #6 – Click on the ‘Insert Sheet’ option available at the end of the drop-down list to insert a new worksheet in excel, as shown below

Insert New Worksheet Example 3-5

The above figure shows that the second sheet named ‘Sheet2’ has been added to a workbook.

Things to Remember in Insert a New Worksheets in Excel

  1. A workbook can contain 255 Worksheets.
  2. A workbook with many worksheets and many formulas may be slow to use.

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