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Excel Vocab
Excel Lesson 3 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| FUNCTION | A PREDEFINED FORMULA THAT USES THE VALUES IN THE CELLS YOU SELECT TO CALCULATE ITS ANSWER. |
| FUNCTION NAME | THE NAME GIVEN TO ONE OF EXCEL'S PREDEFINED FORMULAS. |
| ARGUMENT | THE PARTS OF A FORMULA THAT ARE VARIABE. YOU SELECT THE CELL OR CELLS FOR EACH ARGUMENT, AND EXCEL CALCULATES THE ANSWERS BASED ON THEIR VALUES. |
| NEST | TO USE A FUNCTION AS AN ARGUMENT WITIN ANOTHER FUNCTION. |
| FORMULA AUTOCOMPLETE | A FEATURE THAT SPEEDS UP THE MANUAL ENTRY OF FUNCTIONS. |
| AUTOCALCULATE | A FEATURE THAT TREMPORARILY PERFORMS THAT FOLLOWING CALCULATIONS ON A RANGE OF CELLS WITHOUT MAKING YOU WRITE A FORMULA: AVERAGE, COUNT, COUNTA, MAX, MIN, OR SUM. |
| EXCEL TABLE | DATA ARRANGED IN COLUMNS AND SPECIALLY FORMATTED WITH COLUMN HEADERS THAT CONTAIN COMMANDS THAT ALLOW YOU TO SORT, FILTER, AND PERFORM OTHER FUNCTIONS. |
| STRUCTURED REFERENCES | SPECIAL LABELS THAT REFER TO SPECIFIC DATA IN AN EXCEL TABLE, SUCH AS ALL THE DATA IN A COLUMN OR ALL THE DATA IN THE TABLE. |
| COMMENT | A TEXT NOTE ATTACHED TO A WORKSHEET CELL. |
| RANGE NAME | AN IDENTIFICATION LABE ASSIGNED TO A GROUP OF CELLS. ALSO KNOWN AS DEFINED NAME. |
| NAME BOX | THE TEXT BOX LOCATED TO THE LEFT OF THE FORMULA BAR. |
| FUNCTION | A PREPROGRAMMED EXCEL FORMULA FOR A COMPLEX CALCULATION. |
| CRITERIA | A VALUE, SOME TEXT, OR AN EXPRESSION THAT DEFINES THE TYPE OF CELLS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. |
| EXPRESSION | A SORT OF EQUATION THAT RETURNS A VALUE, SUCH AS TRUE OR FALSE. EXCEL USES EXPRESSIONS TO IDENTIFY CELLS TO INCLUDE IN CERTAIN FORMULAS, SUCH AS IF AND SUMIF. |
| NESTING | USING A FUNCTION AS AN ARGUMENT WITHIN ANOTHER FUNCTION. |
| ARGUMENT | A VARIABLE USED IN A FUNCTION. AN ARGUMENT CAN BE A NUMBER, TEXT, FORMULA, OR A CELL REFERENCE, A COMMA SEPARATES EACH ARGUMENT IN A FUNCTION. |
| CHART | A GRAPHIC THAT ALLOWS YOU TO COMPARE AND CONTRAST DATAT IN A VISUAL FORMAT. |
| EMBEDDED CHART | A CHART PLACED AS AN OBJECT WITHIN A WORKSHEET. |
| CHART SHEET | A CHART THAT OCCUPIES ITS OWN WORKSHEET. |
| PLOT | TO POSITION DATA POINTS ON A GRAPH. |
| DATA SERIES | FOR MOST CHARTS, A DATA SERIES IS THE INFORMATION IN A WORKSHEET COLUMN. IF YOU SLECT MULITPLE COLUMS OF DATA FOR A CHART, YOU'LL CREATE MULTIPLE DATA SERIES. EACH DATA SERIES IS THEN REPRESENTED BY ITS OWN COLOR BAR, LINE. OR COLUMN. |
| LEGEND | A KEY THAT IDENTIFIES EACH OF THE DATA SERIES IN A CHART. |
| X-AXIS | THE HORIZONTAL SCALE OF A CHART ON WHICH CATEGORIES ARE PLOTTED. |
| Y-AXIS | THE VERTICAL SCALE OF A CHART ON WHICH THE VALUE OF EACH CATEGORY IS PLOTTED. |
| CATEGORIES | FOR MOST CHARTS, A CATEGORY IS INFORMATION IN A WORKSHEET ROW. IF YOU SELCT MULTIPLE ROWS OF DATA FOR A CHART, YOU'LL CREAT MULTIPLE CATEGORIES, AND THESE WILL BE LISTED ALONG THE X-AXIS. |
| PLOT AREA | THE AREA DEFINED BY THE X AND Y AXES. |
| OBJECT | AN ITEM THAT IS TREATED SEPARATELY FROM THE MAIN DOCUMENT. IN THE CASE OF A CHART, EACH CHART ELEMENT IS AN OBJECT THAT CAN BE MANIPULATED INDEPENDENTLY. |
| CHART AREA | THE TOTAL AREA OCCUPIED BY A CHART. |
| TICK MARKS | LINES OF MEASUREMENT ALONG THE VALUE AND CATEGORY AXES. |
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