Excel Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Make a cell active.

Any set of characters containing a letter, hyphen (as in a telephone number), or space.

Excel feature that corrects common mistakes when you complete a text entry in a cell.

Any of the following characters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + - ( ) , / . $ E e, as well as a blank space.

Excel command that adds all the numbers in a range of cells.

A series of two or more adjacent cells in a column, row or rectangular group of cells.

Source Area

The cell receiving copied cell contents.

The cell receiving copied cell contents.

The cell being copied.

Small green square located in the lower-right corner of the heavy border around the active cell that you drag to copy cells.

Change the appearance of cell and/or cell contents to emphasize certain entries and make the worksheet easier to read and understand.

Indicates how characters are emphasized, such as bold, underline, and italic.

Specifies size of characters.

Measurement used to determine size of font; a point is 1/72 of one inch in height.

The color of the characters.

Defines the appearance and shape of the letters, numbers, and special characters. Also called a font face.

A predefined font, font size, and font color that you can apply to a cell.

Creating a single cell by combining two or more selected cells.

Separating merged cells into the original range of cells.

Separate sheet in a workbook that contains only a chart.

Cell data that determines the size of elements (bars, columns, or pie slices) in a chart.

Details about a file such as the project author, title, and subject.

Document properties that are associated with all Microsoft Office files and include author, title, and subject.

Document properties, including file system properties, such as the date you create or change a file, and statistics, such as the file size.

Information that exists on paper.

Information that exists on paper.

Practices that involve reducing the electricity consumed and environmental waste generated when using computers, mobile devices, etc.

Printed copy with the short (8½″) edge at the top of the printout; the printed page is taller than it is wide.

Printed copy with the long (11″) edge at the top of the paper; the printed page is wider than it is tall.

Area on status bar where you can obtain a total, an average, or other information about the numbers in a range.

Excel mode that allows you to perform in-cell editing.

Editing the contents of a cell directly in the cell.

Default Excel mode that inserts the character and moves all characters to the right of the typed character one position to the right.

Excel mode that replaces, or overtypes, the character to the right of the insertion point.