Excel Terms
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| Spreadsheet | present tables of values arranged in rows and columns that can be manipulated mathematically using both basic and complex arithmetic operations and functions.
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| Workbook | : A spreadsheet program file that you create in Excel. A workbook contains worksheets of rows and columns in which you can enter and calculate data.
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| Worksheet | The primary document that you use in Excel to store and work with data. Also called a spreadsheet. A worksheet consists of cells that are organized into columns and rows; a worksheet is always stored in a workbook.
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| Workbook window | a spreadsheet file. By default, each workbook in Excel contains 3 pages or worksheets.
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| Sheet tab | appears at the bottom of the worksheet. It has the name of the worksheet on it.
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| Active worksheet | The sheet that you're working on in a workbook. The name on the tab of the active sheet is bold.
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| Workspace | space in which to work.
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| Columns | Go up and down the spreadsheet like columns in a building. These are labeled with letters.
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| Rows | Go across the spreadsheet like rows in a theater.
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| Headings | is the colored row of letters used to identify each column within the sheet, or workbook. The column header row is located above the row one. See also column.
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| Cell reference | refers to a cell or a range of cells on a worksheet and can be used in a formula so that Microsoft Office Excel can find the values or data that you want that formula to calculate.
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| Name Box | on the formula bar. this is best used for creating a workbook level name for a selected range. Create a name from selection. You can conveniently create names from existing row and column labels by using a selection of cells in the worksheet.
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| Formula bar | A toolbar at the top of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet window that you can use to enter or copy an existing formula in to cells or charts.
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| Formula | is any equation entered into a cell on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
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| Relative References | references are in the format A1 and if copied to a different cell the cell reference changes relative to the new location. For example, if the formula specifies A1 and is copied to a new location two rows down the new formula would specify A3.
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| Absolute References | Absolute means that the reference in a formula will always look for the value in a specific cell, even if you copy the cell to a different location. The format for an absolute reference is $A$1 (referring to cell A1).
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| Mixed Reference | A mixed cell reference is either an absolute column and relative row or absolute row and relative column. When you add the $ before the column letter you create an absolute column or before the row number you create an absolute row.
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| Active cell | The selected cell in which data is entered when you begin typing. Only one cell is active at a time. The active cell is bounded by a heavy border
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| Enter Data | Process data in a cell in a worksheet
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| Range | 2 or more cells on a sheet.
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| . Gridlines | : Lines you can add to a chart that make it easier to view and evaluate data. Grid lines extend from the tick marks on an axis across the plot area.
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| True or False Range has 1 cell on a spreadsheet | False
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| True or False Sheet tab appears at the top of the spreadsheet | False
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| True or False Formula is ANY equation entered into a cell in excel. | True
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| True or False An example of Absolute Reference is $B$4 | True
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| True or False A worksheet is the same as a speadsheet | True
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| True or False There can only be 2 or more active cells at a time | False
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| True or False A workbook file is found at the bottom of the spread sheet. | True
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| True or False The active worksheet is a worksheet that you're not working on currently. | False
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| True or False Relative Reference doesn't change as the cell changes | False
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| True or False An example of a mixed reference is A$4 | True
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