Microsoft Excel - Rows, Columns & Cells

The letters in Excel represent the...

• Rows

• Columns

• Cells

• Data

The numbers in Excel represent the...

• Rows

• Columns

• Cells

• Data

What is the cell in the worksheet in which you can type data?

• Main cell

• Open cell

• Active cell

• Absolute cell

The intersection of a row and column.

• column

• row

• cell

• active cell

The set of data that runs up and down in a spreadsheet

• column

• row

• cell

• active cell

Luisa is creating a worksheet tracking her company’s spending on a project. However, when viewing her document, she has noticed that some of the cells contain pound signs like in the example below.


Which of the following suggestions would help Luisa?

• Make the cell wider
• Change the number formatting in the cell
• Change the font format in the cell
• Delete the data and re-type it

Excel is part of

• Access
• Microsoft Office
• PowerPoint

To allow you to evenly distribute a title over a table of numbers, use the

• Center button
• Merge and Center button
• Merge cells only button

How do you change column width to fit the contents?

• Single-click the boundary to the left of the column heading
• Double-click the boundary to the right of the column heading
• Press ALT and single-click anywhere in the column

Using the keyboard, you could navigate from one cell to another cell by using the ____ ____.

• Enter Keys

• Arrow Keys

• Piano Keys

• Tab Key