Excel Chapter 1: Creating a worksheet and charting data

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Chart elements button

A button that enables you to add, remove, or change chart elements such as the title, legend, girdlines, and data labels

Chart Filters button

A button that enables you to change which data displays in the chart

Chart Styles Button

A button that enables you to set a style and color scheme for your chart

AutoSum

A button that provides quick access to the SUM function

Absolute Cell Reference

A cell reference that refers to cells by their fixed position in a worksheet; an absolute cell reference remains the same when the formula is copied

Column chart

A chart in which the data is arranged in columns and that is useful for showing how data changes over a period of time or for illustrating comparisons among items

Data marker

A column, bar, area, dot, pie slice, or other symbol in a chart that represents a single data point

Context sensitive

A command associated with the currently selected or active object; often activated by right-clicking a screen item

Cell style

A defined set of formatting characteristics, such as font, font size, font color, cell borders, and cell shading.

AutoCalculate

A feature that displays three calculations in the status bar by default--average, count, and sum--when you select a range of numerical data

AutoComplete

A feature that speeds your typing and lessens the likelihood of errors; if the first few characters you type in a cell match an existing entry in the column, Excel fills in the remaining characters for you

Chart Styles gallery

A group of predesigned Chart styles that you can apply to an excel chart

Function

A predefined formula

Data point

A value that originates in a worksheet cell and that is represented in a chart by a data marker

column

A vertical group of cells in a worksheet

AutoFit

An Excel feature that adjusts the width of a column to fit the cell content of the widest cell in the column

Auto Fill

An Excel feature that generates and extends values into adjacent cells based on the values of selected cells

Excel Pointer

An Excel window element with which you can display the location of the pointer.

Expand Formula Bar Button

An Excel window element with which you can increase the height of the Formula Bar to display lengthy cell content.

Expand Horizontal Scroll Bar Button

An Excel window element with which you can increase the width of the horizontal scroll bar.

Cell address

Another name for a cell reference

Cell content

Anything typed into a cell

format

Changing the appearance of cells and worksheet elements to make a worksheet attractive and easy to read

Constant Value

Numbers, text, dates, or times of day that you typei into cell

Data series

Related data points represented by data markers

Accounting Number Format

The Excel number format that applies a thousand comma separator where appropriate, inserts a fixed U.S dollar sign aligned at the left edge or the cell, applies two decimal places, and leaves a small amount of space at the right edge of the cell to accommodate a parenthesis for negative numbers

Comma Style

The Excel number format that inserts thousand comma separators where appropriate and applies two decimal places

Category axis

The area along the bottom of a chart that identifies the categories of data; also referred to as the x-axis

Active cell

The cell, surrounded by a black border, ready to receive data or be affected by the next Excel command

Chart layout

The combination of chart elements that can be displayed in a chart such as a title, legend, labels for the columns, and the table of charted cells

Displayed value

The data that displays in a cell

General format

The default format that Excel applies to numbers; Whatever you type in the cell will display

Chart

The graphic representation of data in a worksheet; data presented as a chart is usually easier to understand than a table of numbers

Cell reference

The identification of a specific cell by its intersecting column letter and row number

Cell

The intersection of a column and a row

Category labels

The labels that display along the bottom of a chart to identify the categories of data; Excel uses the row titles as the category names

Column heading

The letter that displays at the top of a vertical group of cells in a worksheet; beginning with the first letter of the alphabet, a unique letter or combination of letters identifies each column

Chart style

The overall visual look of chart in terms of its graphic effects, colors, and backgrounds; for example, you can have flat or beveled columns, colors, that are solid or transparent, and backgrounds that are dark or light

Fill handle

The small black square in the lower right corner of a selected cell

Arithmetic operators

The symbols +, -, *, /, %, and ^ used to denote addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentage, and exponentiation in an Excel formula

Chart types

Various chart formats used in a way that is meaningful to the reader; common examples are column charts, pie charts, and line charts

Formula Bar

an element in the Excel window that displays the value or formula contained in the active cell

Formula

an equation the performs mathematical calculations on values in a worksheet

Data

text or numbers in a cell


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