New Workbook vs New Worksheet

[jewelsharma]

While EXCEL (& VBA) refers to the whole file as a Workbook and the individual tabs as Worksheets. My windows right click menu prompts you to create a new "Microsoft Excel Worksheet".
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Not just that, but the new Workbook created this way is named as "New Microsoft Excel Worksheet" and the 'file type' column under the windows explorer also identifies it as "Microsoft Excel Worksheet". Is this behavior universal? Can we change it (like can we define what a file type is called, or what a new file is named by default)?

If it is universal, I find this quite inconsistent!! (Any interesting reasons/anecdotes?)

[joe31623]

It's inconsistent but I ever thought about it. I'm not sure what benefit there would be to changing it. Many programmers such as myself can be rather OCD but that inconsistency usually doesn't lead to misunderstandings since you can't create a new worksheet without first creating a new workbook. Maybe this is a bad example, but but I know my computer never literally sleeps, yet almost every day, I hit Settings --> Power --> Sleep.

I'm guessing if you do wish to change that, you'll have to change something in the Registry.

Post your solution if you do!

[jewelsharma]

I'm not much interested in changing it per se; unless it was local to my system. I do find it intriguing though.