Open blank Excel spreadsheet with all cells in text format by default

"Presumably you want to do this some of the time and not all of the time.

If that is so,

create a new spreadsheet
format all its cells to text
save it (as read only) with a name
such as ""Excel-Text""
Put it, or a shortcut to it, to
wherever you like to launch things
from

and just launch it when you need it"