Excel 2007 : New Workbook problem in XL 2007

I have recently moved from Office 2003 to 2007 and am suffering from many different problems. With time I have solved most of them but I am yet to believe that there is any improvment in Excel 2007.

One that I have not solved , however, concerns opening new workbooks.

I have a template workbook that I want to open every time I create a new workbook. This is stored in XLStart and when I open Excel this is the book that opens - so far so good.

In 2003 when I wanted a new workbook whiel within Excel, I pressed Contol-n and got the book that I wanted. Now, in 2007, when I open a new workbook in the same way, I get a default 3 sheet workbook which is not what I want.

I know that I can save a template to Templates and gain access to this via New from the big round button at the top and then open a template, but this is 3 times clumsier.

I would like to know how I can get back to what I had before rather than have to waste time with mice and menus.

Can anyone help, please?

Thanks for the quick reponse but perhaps i have not made myself clear.

The workbook that I want to open every time has 5 sheets some of which are preformatted with picture headers of differing types in differing sheet, different Page Setups in different sheets and there are a number of custom styles as well as preselected fonts.

This is what I get when I open Excel but not when I open a new workbook using control-n from within Excel.

Cheers

That seesm to have worked - many thanks