Start with a customizable meeting minutes template for an easy-to-tweak layout for all your minutes notes. Here, you'll discover everything you need to know about board meeting minutes and how to take them with examples and a meeting minutes template.Alternatively you can go to D2 and double-click the fill handle in the bottom-right corner of the cell to apply the formula to the whole column. I've struggled to create a format for writing minutes of meetings that contain a column on the right for initials (for action points).