Excel chapter 5 vocab

wild card

A character, for example the*or?, Used to search a field when you are uncertain of the exact value or when you want to widen the search to include more records

Freeze panes

A command that enables you to select one or more rows or columns and freeze them into place so that they remain on the screen while you Scroll; the locked rows and columns become separate panes

Find

A command that finds and selects specific text or formatting

Go to

A command that moves to a specific Cell or range of cells that you specify

Go to special

A command the moves to cells that have special characteristics, for example, to cells are blank or to cells that contains constants, or opposed to formulas

Cell style

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

Sorts dialog box

A dialog box which you can sort data based on several criteria at once, and that enables as sorts buy more than one column or row

Auto filter menu

A drop-down menu from which you can filter a column by a list of values by a format or by criteria

Comma Delimited file

A file this saves the contents of the cells by placing commas between them and an end of paragraph Mark at the end of each row; also referred to as CSV (separated values)file.

Tab delimited text file

A file type in which cells are separated by tabs; this type of file can be readily exchange with various database programs

CSV(comma separated values)file

A file type in which the cells in each row are separated by commas and an end of paragraph mark at the end of each row;also referred to as a comma delimited file

XPS( XML Paper Specification)

A file type, develop by Microsoft, which creates a representation on electronic paper that displays your data on the screen as it will look or printed

Advanced filter

A filter that can specify three or more criteria for a particular column apply complex criteria to two or more columns or specify computed criteria

Compound filter

A filter that uses more than one condition-and one that uses comparison operators

Custom filter

A filter with which you can apply complex criteria to a single column

Scaling

A group of commands by which you can reduce the horizontal and vertical size of the printed data by a percentage or by the number of pages that you specify

HTML

A language web browsers can interpret

Pane

A portion of a worksheet window bounded by and separated from other portions by vertical and horizontal bars

theme

A pre-design set of colors, fonts, line, and fill the effect that looks good together and that can be applied to your entire document or to specific items

Filtering

A process in which only the rows meet the criteria display; rows that do not meet the criteria are hidden

Query

A process of restricting records through the use of criteria conditions that will display records the will answer a question about the data

List

A series of rows that contain related data that you can group by adding subtitles

Custom list

A sort order that you can define

Field

A specific type of data such as name, employee number, or Social Security number that is stored in columns

Major sort

A term sometimes used to referred to the first sort of level in the sort dialogue box

Record

All the categories of data pertaining to one person,place,thing,events ,or idea

Database

And organized collection of facts related to a specific topic

Criteria

Conditions that you specify in the logical function or filter

. xlsx

Filename extension the default file format used but Excel 2013 to save an excel workbook

Criteria range

In area or your worksheet where you defined the criteria for the filter, and that indicates how the displayed records are filtered

Comparison operators

Symbols that evaluate each value to determine if it is the same ,greater than ,less than ,or in between a range of values as specified by the criteria

Hyperlink

Text or graphics, when clicked, take you to another location in the worksheet, to another file, or to a webpage on the Internet or your organizations Intranet

Split

The command that enables you to view separate parts of the same worksheet on your screen; splits the window into multiple resizable panes to view distant parts of the worksheet at one time

Arrange all

The command that tiles all open programs windows on the screen

Subtotal command

The command that totals several rows of related data together by automatically inserting subtotals and totals for the selected cells

And comparison operator

The comparison operator that requires each and everyone of the comparison criteria to be true

Or comparison operator

The comparison operator that requires only one of the two comparison criteria that you specify to be true

Extract area

The location to which you copy records when extracting filtered rows

Sort

The process of arranging data in a specific order

Extract

The process of pulling out multiple sets of data for comparison purposes

Detail data

The subtotaled rows that are totaled and summarized; typically adjacent to and either above or to the left of the summary data

Additive

The term that describes the behavior of a filter when each additional filter that you apply is based on the current filter and that further reduces the number of records displayed

Descending

The term that refers to the arrangement of text that is sort alphabetically from Z to a A, number Sorted from highest to lowest, or dates and times sorted from latest earliest

Ascending

The term that refers to the arrangement of text that is sorted alphabetically from A to Z, numbers sorted from lowest to highest or dates and times were sorted earliest to latest

Compound criteria

The use of two or more criteria on the same row-all conditions must be met for the records to be included in the results