How to configure Excel to open only 1 sheet by default

Ever wondered why Excel opens 3 Sheets in a new Workbook and how to fix that to have only 1 sheet by default instead?

Here is a small setting officially provided by Microsoft to configure that.

1. Start Microsoft Excel
2. Ideally by default it should open a new workbook with 3 sheets
3. Click on File tab, now select options from this tab
4. In the resulting window with "General" section pre-selected, look for "When creating new workbooks" section
5. 4th field in this section says "Include this many sheets" with default as "3"
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Change this to 1

Voila! Next time you start Microsoft Excel, it will create a new workbook with only 1 Sheet.