Excel Vocabulary 6

Rules Manager

The Excel Rules Manager gives you even greater control over rules by enabling you to set the order of multiple rules, fine-tune rule settings, and more.

Mini toolbar

The Mini toolbar is a formatting tool that appears above or below the shortcut menu when you right-click a cell.

align

To align means to arrange in a line or bring into alignment.

wrap

When a cell is formatted to wrap text, data that's too long to display within the cell's width automatically displays on the next line within the cell.

font

A font is a set of text properties that affect the typeface, size, and similar aspects of text.

hyperlink

A hyperlink is a shortcut of sorts that enables you to navigate to a web page or a location in another file in just one click of the mouse.

merged cells

A merged cell combines two or more cells into a single cell.

style

A style is a set of formatting attributes that you can apply to a cell or range of cells more easily than by setting each attribute individually.

attribute

An attribute is a formatting characteristic, such as bold, italic, or underlined text.

conditional formatting

Conditional formatting is a powerful Excel feature that enables you to specify how cells that meet a given condition should be displayed.

Paste Special

Excel gives you another tool, called Paste Special, that enables you to control specifically what you want to paste after using the Copy or Cut command, such as cell content, formulas, values, formatting, and much more.

Format Painter

Format Painter is a feature found in most Office applications that allows you to quickly copy formatting attributes that you have already applied and "paint" those attributes onto other text, shapes, pictures, and worksheet cells.