Lesson 12 : Excel Terminology (1)

In this lesson we will define some Excel Terminology we illustrated before :

·       Workbook: The name for a file that Excel uses. A workbook consists of one or more sheets.

·         Worksheet: A sheet in a workbook that contains cells. Worksheets are the most commonly used sheet type

·         Spreadsheet: A generic term for a product such as Excel that is used to track and calculate data. Or, this term is often used to refer to a worksheet or a workbook

·       Select : To highlight a cell or range of cells on a worksheet. The selected cells will be affected by the next command or action

·       Range: A collection of two or more cells. Specify a range by separating the upper left cell and the lower-right cell with a colon.

·       Sheet: One unit of a workbook, which can be a worksheet or a chart sheet. Activate a sheet by clicking its sheet tab.

·       Cell: A single addressable unit in a worksheet, defined by the intersection of a row and a column.

·       Row: Part of a worksheet that consists of 256 cells arranged horizontally. Each worksheet has 65,536 rows.

·       Column: Part of a worksheet that consists of 65,536 cells arranged vertically. Each worksheet has 256 columns.

·       Value: A number entered into a cell.