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Excel Module 2 Study Guide

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One of the benefits of Live Preview is that ____   it lets you see and evaluate different formats as you develop your workbook  
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Typeface is the specific design used for characters and includes ____   letters, numbers, and special characters.  
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A ____ is not a type of font   true type  
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When you don’t want to associate a font with a particular design, you use a ____ font   non-theme  
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Italic, bold, bold italic, and underline are examples of ____   font styles  
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To change the font size one point at a time, in the Font group on the Home tab, click the ____ button.   increase or decrease font size  
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____ theme colors are designated for text and background, ____ colors are used for accents and highlights, and ____ colors are used for hyperlinks.   four, six, two  
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You can create a ____ color by specifying a mixture of red, blue, and green color values.   custom  
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To add a ____ to a sheet tab, click the Format button, point to Tab color, and then click a color.   fill color  
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Selecting the Font Color button arrow will display ____ and a _______.   10 theme colors, standard color bar,  
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The background image does not affect any cell’s ____ or __________.   format, content  
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When creating an Excel document, you should avoid using ____ text and background together, since this is the most common form of color blindness.   red and green  
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By default, numbers appear in the ____ and generally display values exactly as you type them.   general number format.  
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Because Excel stores dates and times as ____, you can apply different formats without affecting the date and time value.   numbers  
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Dates and times in Excel measure intervals between the specified date and time and ____   January 1, 1900 12:00 am  
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In Excel, dates are ____-aligned in the cell by default, regardless of date format.   right  
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As a general rule, you should ____ column titles, ______ align text, and ____ align numbers.   center, , left,, right.  
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____ merges each of the rows in the selected range across the columns in the range.   merge across.  
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In Excel, to merge cells A1, B1, C1, D1, and E1, ____ is the correct reference for the merged cell.   A1:E1  
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Options to rotate cells in Excel are available using the ____ button in the Alignment group on the Home tab.   orientation.  
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You can add a border in Excel ____.   to enhance readability, to top right or bottom of a cell, specify thickness.  
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In the Format Cells dialog box, the ____ tab allows you to format currency by choosing decimal places, comma separators, and regular number displays.   number  
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The Format Cells dialog box has six tabs that does NOT include: ____   color.  
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When using the Format Painter, double-click the Format Painter button to paste the same format multiple times and click the Format Painter again to ____.   turn it off.  
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In the Paste Special dialog box, you can __________, ____________, and __________   select to rotate selected range 90 degrees, paste only formulas, paste values and formats.  
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You can open the Format Cells dialog box by right-clicking a cell or selected range, and then clicking ____ on the shortcut menu   format cells  
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____ use the same file format for their theme files.   Microsoft word, excel and powerPoint.  
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You can treat a range of data as a distinct object in a worksheet known as a(n) ____.   excel table.  
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A(n) ____ specifies formats for elements in an Excel table, such as font color, fill color, and so forth.   table style.  
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The most efficient way to format an entire table is to ____.   use a table style  
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A table ____ applies alternating row colors to the entire Excel table and adjusts the banded rows effect as needed if you add or delete rows.   style.  
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Applying a table style marks the range as a table, making available tools designed for analyzing tabular data, including the __________, transfer data to and from an _________, and ________ data to only shows that match a criteria.   ability to sort data, external, filter  
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In Excel, the table style ____ inserts a new row at the bottom of the table that adds the column values.   total row.  
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In Excel, the ____ table style formats alternating columns in different colors.   banded columns.  
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To remove banded rows from an Excel table, first you need to select the ____ tab on the Ribbon.   design.  
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In Page Layout view, the worksheet is displayed as it will appear on the ____.   printed page.  
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A ____ is the space between the page content and the edges of the page   margin.  
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One way to ensure that you are using consistent formats is to copy and paste your formats using the Format ____.   painter.  
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In conditional formatting, to highlight only cells that contain a specific date, select the rule____.   date occuring  
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Fonts, colors, and cell styles are organized in ____ categories.   theme and non-theme  
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To view certain columns on a large worksheet, a good option is to ____.   hide columns that contain information you do not need.  
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When preparing to print, you have the option to select ____, _____ and _____.   position of the report on the page, orientation, include headers and footers.  
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Setting the ____ to A1:L10 will print only data in those cells.   print range.  
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To avoid splitting a worksheet in awkward places, you can insert a(n) ____ to specify a specific breaking point.   pagebreak.  
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To set a page break in Excel, ____.   select first cell below the row where you want to insert a page break.  
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A ____ indicates a manual page break.   solid blue line.  
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Information that prints on each page, like a company name or logo, may be set as a(n) ____.   print title.  
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The code ____ will display the filename of the current workbook.   &[File].  
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The header and footer sections include ____ , ______ and ______ sections.   left, right, center  
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