Excel Form Templates for March Madness fans, spreadsheet templates are ready to track their brackets, from Play-In Round to the Finals. These Excel templates are created by software experts, and they are safe to download and easy to use. Like all Excel templates, the March Madness brackets 2012 are formatted for printing and include step-by-step instructions.

Get the Most Out of an Excel Template

To get the most out of using a March Madness Excel template—or any of the Excel templates, choose one that is set up to track errors. In other words, if a Final Four pick isn't listed in the first round, the template will alert the error.  Free Excel templates might contain advertisements, but that's OK. Someone has to pay for the work, and the advertisements do not show up in the hard copy versions of the Excel templates.

Fee-based Excel templates are also available and should be free of advertisements. A good Excel template will have cells that are locked, to prevent data from being entered in the wrong cell. Even better, the template form designer will highlight the cells where the user enters data.

Track the Office Pool with Excel Templates

For March Madness pool managers, the Excel template makes tracking players' brackets simple. The first step in working with an Excel template is to do a 'save as'  and save it as a .xls or .xlsx file. If the file has an .xlt extension, any data entered into the Excel template will not be saved. Create a worksheet for each member's brackets, and track them all in one Excel file. Excel templates serve a variety of needs, from managing personal finances to creating corporate financial reports. They can also be used for project management templates, accounting, invoicing and a host of home- and business-management needs.

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