Here are a few default Excel settings you should change for a better experience if the default Excel interface is not to your liking.

Learn how to hide Paste Options button after pasting content in Excel using Excel settings, Registry or Group Policy Editor.

Also, if you're using multiple versions of Excel on the same computer, the default program for opening your files may be a different version of Excel than you'd prefer to use.

Customize Excel’s default file location so you don’t have to hunt for your most commonly used folder anymore. Suppose that most of your spreadsheets belong in a folder named Forecasts.

The two most recent versions of Microsoft's word processor let you paste plain text rather than formatted text and graphics when you press Ctrl-V or click the Paste button.

Microsoft has announced that Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros will now be disabled by default to protect customers from malicious documents.

Word 2003's paste options come up short Since the company I work for still uses Word 2003, we've got no such option because you can't change Word 2003's default Keep Source Formatting paste setting.