Understanding Excel workbook

When you open or click the MS Excel icon, the Microsoft Excel application window will open or appear, showing a blank workbook named Bookl. On the right side of the MS Excel window, you could find the Getting Started task pane. This task pane allows you to connect to the Microsoft online and also enables you to open the existing Excel workbooks or to create new Excel workbooks. While you work in the MS Excel, you could use the workbook files in order to hold your for­mulas, numerical data and various other objects, such as charts. Every Excel workbook could include of many sheets; each sheet is known as a worksheet and the several number of worksheet is known as workbook.

You enter your formulas and numbers on one of the MS Excel workbook's worksheets. Every worksheet includes of 256 columns and the columns start with column A and proceeds to alphabets. The twenty-seventh column is AA and then it is followed by AB, AC etc. This conven­tion for naming succeeding columns continues via the complete alphabet until you finish with the column 256 or last column that is designated IV.

Each worksheet includes of 65,536 rows. The intersection of a row and column on the worksheet is known as a cell. Every cell has an address which includes of the row and column which intersect to make the cell. For instance, the very first cell on the work­sheet is in column A and row 1, therefore the cell address is given as Al.

Worksheet: One sheet in an Excel workbook. Each worksheet consists of 256 columns and 65,536 rows (plenty of space to create even the most enormous spreadsheets).

Cell:  Where a row and column intersect, each cell has an address that consists of the column letter and row number (A1, B3, C4. and so on). You enter data and for­mulas in the cells to create your worksheets.

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