Worksheet titles and subtitles should be as wordy as possible.

A thin red border indicates the active cell.

Both the Cancel button and the Enter button appear on the formula bar when you begin typing in a cell.

The AutoCorrect feature can automatically capitalize the first letter in the names of days.

When text is longer than the width of a column, Excel displays the overflow characters in adjacent cells to the right as long as those adjacent cells contain no data.

Excel can display characters in only three font colors: black, red, and blue.

A character with a point size of 10 is about 10/72 of one inch in height.

Modifying the column widths usually is done last because other formatting changes may affect the size of data in the cells in the column.

Live preview is available on a touch screen.

You can turn off the Bold formatting for selected text by clicking the Roman button (Home tab | Font group).

To add a pie chart, first select the data to be charted and then tap or click the Insert Pie or Doughnut Chart button (INSERT tab | Charts group).

With Excel in Edit mode, you can edit cell contents directly in the cell.

You should press the SPACEBAR to clear a cell.

The equal sign (=) precedes a formula.

The most common error when entering a formula is to reference the wrong cell in the formula.

An asterisk (*) following a cell reference in a formula is the arithmetic operator that directs Excel to perform the division operation.

The arithmetic operator, ^, directs Excel to perform the division operation.

Moving from left to right, the first calculation in the order of operations is negation (-).

The Insert Options button lists formatting options.

Excel has more than 400 functions that perform just about every type of calculation you can imagine.

Excel attempts to guess which cells you want to include in the function by looking for ranges that are adjacent to the selected cell and that contain numeric data.

The range automatically selected by Excel is always correct.

The AVERAGE function requires that the argument be included within parentheses following the function name.

When you click the Decrease Font Size button, Excel assigns the next highest font size in the Font Size gallery.

You can click the Format Cells Dialog Box Launcher to open the Format Cells dialog box.

You cannot format an entire column at once.

With the accounting number style, a floating dollar sign appears immediately to the left of the first digit in a dollar value with no spaces.

The Percent Style button instructs Excel to display a value as a percentage, determined by multiplying the cell entry by 100, rounding the result to the nearest percent, and adding a percent sign.

The Increase Indent button indents the contents of a cell to the right by three spaces each time you click it.

A date stamp shows the date a workbook, report, or other document was created or the time period it represents.

A relative cell reference instructs Excel to adjust the cell reference as it copies it to the destination area.

The <= comparison operator means less than or equal to.

The underline format underlines the entire cell, not just the characters in the cell.

The range of entries that identifies the major groups for a clustered column chart are called the category names.

When you magnify a worksheet, Excel enlarges the view of the characters on the screen and displays more rows and columns.

Exploding worksheet columns and rows is a useful technique for viewing large worksheets that extend beyond the window.

An Excel ____ allows data to be summarized and charted easily.

The first step in creating an effective worksheet to make sure you____

To enter data in a cell, you must first select the __

____ is/are used to place worksheet, column, and row titles on a worksheet.

Clicking the ____ box completes an entry.

The ____ feature works behind the scenes, fixing common typing or spelling mistakes when you complete a text entry.

Pressing the ____ key to complete an entry activates the adjacent cell to the right.

The range of cells receiving copied content is called the ____ area.

You can enter the correct range in a function by typing the beginning and ending cell references separated by a ____.

The range of cells receiving the content of copied cells is called the ____.

A ____ reference is an adjusted cell reference in a copied and pasted formula.

The ____ button allows you to choose whether you want to copy the values from the source area to the destination area with formatting.

You ____ a worksheet to emphasize certain entries and make the worksheet easier to read and understand.

You can apply the Bold font style by pressing the ____ keyboard shortcut keys.

Combining two or more selected cells into one cell is called ____ cells.

Which of the following is the Ribbon path to the Cell Styles button?

What effect does the Accounting Number Format have on the selected cells?

What effect does the Comma Style format have on the selected cells?

Pressing the ____ keyboard shortcut key(s) selects cell A1.

How many chart types does Excel offer?

A pie chart with one or more slices offset is referred to as a(n) ____ pie chart.

The date you change a file is an example of a(n) ____ property.

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

The ____ area on the status bar includes six commands as well as the result of the associated calculation on the right side of the menu.

Which of the following keys moves the insertion point to the beginning of data in a cell?

. To erase an entire entry in a cell and then reenter the data from the beginning, press the ____ key.

Which of the following keys moves the insertion point to the end of data in a cell?

The ____ button allows you to erase recent cell entries.

Excel remembers the last ____ actions you have completed.

Press ____ to select the entire worksheet.

A ____ is a prewritten formula that is built into Excel.

All of the following are valid Excel arithmetic operators EXCEPT ____.

Which of the following calculations multiplies 23 by 0.01?

When more than one arithmetic operator is involved in a formula, Excel follows the same basic order of ____ that you use in algebra.

When Excel follows the order of operations, the formula, 8 * 3 + 2, equals ____.

Which of the following happens when you enter the formula =G15 into a cell?

The ____ button lists error-checking options following the assignment of an invalid formula to a cell.

The ____ Option button lists formatting options following an insertion of cells, rows, or columns.

. The ____ function displays the highest value in a range.

The ____ function determines the lowest number in a range.

The ____ function sums the numbers in the specified range and then divides the sum by the number of cells with numeric values in the range.

The ____ AutoComplete list contains those functions that alphabetically match the letters you type following the equal sign.

Excel automatically appends the ____ to complete the AVERAGE function when you click the Enter box or press the ENTER key.

A company or department may standardize with a specific ____ so that all of their documents have a similar appearance.

The ____ button assigns a fixed dollar sign to the numbers in a selected range, with the dollar sign to the far left with spaces between it and the first digit in the cell.

If you do not assign a format to a cell or cells in a column, the column width will remain ____ characters.

When you decrease the row height to ____, the row is hidden.

A ____ is text and graphics that print at the top of each page.

A ____ is text and graphics that print at the bottom of every page

The default view in Excel is called ____ view.

____ view allows you to create or modify a worksheet while viewing how it will look in printed format.

The Increase Indent button indents the contents of a cell to the right by ____ spaces each time you click it.

The Copy button copies the contents and format of the source area to the Office ____, a temporary storage area in the computer’s memory.

In the context of copying a range of cells to a nonadjacent location, an alternative to clicking the Paste button is to press the ____ key.

Using the mouse to move or copy cells is called ____.

Which of the following is not a valid format symbol?

Which of the following formulas contains an absolute cell reference?

The ____ function is useful when you want to assign a value to a cell based on a logical test.

Which comparison operator means “not equal to”?

A(n) ____ chart provides a simple way to show trends and variations in a range of data within a single cell.

You should use a ____ chart to compare values side by side, broken down by category.

Charts can either be embedded in a worksheet or placed in a separate ____.

When working with a large worksheet, you can split the window into ____ panes.