Excel Vocabulary

Beth McKelvey

columns

Vertical section of worksheet

rows

• Horizontal section of worksheet

worksheet

• A single spreadsheet

Active cellThe cell you are currently using

cell

Column heading

Row numbers

gridlines

• The lines between the cells (these lines don’t print)

borders

• The black lines between the cells (these lines WILL print)

alignment

• Where the text sits in the cell

select

• choose

merge

• To combine cells

AutoSum

• The function in Excel that calculates the sum of a group of numbers

Preview

• To see how a printout will look (do this before you print)

Range

• A group of adjacent cells

• A1:A5• F13:F25

Adjacent

• Next to