How to set active sheet without loading an xlsx file?

Question

I am using PHPExcel to generate an xl using php. I am not loading an xl sheet but creating new sheets using

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Answer 1

If you are directly manipulating the xml in workbook.xml

$replace = '#activeTab="\d"#i';
$with = 'activeTab="0"';
$newxmlfile=preg_replace($replace,$with,$newxmlfile); // force activetab to sheet 1