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Excel Vocab

Excel Lesson 3 Vocabulary

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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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