MS Word & MS Excel Exam

1. _______, ________ and _______ are what you see when you open Excel

• Columns, rows and charts

• Columns, rows and formulas

• Columns, rows and cells

• None of the above

The Ribbon in MS Excel is

• Commands organized in small related groups

• The band at the top of the Excel window

• Both of the above

• Neither of the above

When you start Excel, you open a file that's called a workbook. Each new workbook comes with_____________ worksheet(s)

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

___________ are where you enter data in a worksheet.

• Cells

• Fields

• Tables

• None of the above

In a new worksheet, you must start by typing in cell A1.

• True

• False

You can use Excel to create budgets, to work with taxes, or to record student grades

• True

• False

You can enter two basic kinds of data into worksheet cells:

• Numbers and text

• Numbers and figures

• Text and charts

• None of the above

To enter a date in a cell, you should use a slash or a hyphen to separate the parts: 7/16/2009 or 16-July-2009. Excel will recognize this as a text

• True

• False

What does ###### in a cell means?

• You've entered a number wrong

• You've misspelled something

• The cell is not wide enough

• Bad punctuation

What do you type into an empty cell to start a formula?

• An equal sign (=)

• A plus sign (+)

• An asterisk (*)

• A percent sign (%)