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Lessons 4 6 Vocabulary

This document defines vocabulary terms related to Excel functions, formulas, formatting, and cell references. Key terms include absolute and relative cell references, functions like SUM and AVERAGE, formatting tools like conditional formatting and styles, and formula concepts such as operands, operators, and order of operations.

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Lessons 4 6 Vocabulary

This document defines vocabulary terms related to Excel functions, formulas, formatting, and cell references. Key terms include absolute and relative cell references, functions like SUM and AVERAGE, formatting tools like conditional formatting and styles, and formula concepts such as operands, operators, and order of operations.

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Excel 2016 – Lessons 4-6 Vocabulary

Absolute cell reference – A reference to a specific cell or range of cells regardless of where
the formula is located in the worksheet.
Align – Arrange in a line or bring into alignment.

Attribute – A formatting characteristic, such as bold, italic, or underlined text.

Autosum – A formula that calculates (by default) the total from the adjacent cell through
the first nonnumeric cell using the SUM function.
AVERAGE function – A function that returns the mean of the arguments.

Calculation operator – Operators that specify the calculations to be performed.

Cell reference – A reference that identifies a cell’s location in the worksheet based on its row
number and column letter.
Conditional formatting – An Excel feature that enables you to specify how cells that meet
one or more given conditions should be displayed.
Constant – A number or text value entered directly into a formula.

COUNT function – A function that determines how many cells in a range contain a number.

COUNTA function – A function that returns the number of cells in the selected range that
contain text or values, but not blank cells.
COUNTBLANK function – A function that counts the number of blank cells in a range.

External reference – A cell or range in a worksheet in another Excel workbook, or a defined


name in another workbook.
Font – A set of text properties that affects the typeface, size, and similar aspects of text.

Format Painter – 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.
Formula – An equation that performs calculations, such as addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division, on values in a worksheet.
Function – A predefined formula that performs a calculation.

Hyperlink – A shortcut that enables you to navigate to a web page or a location in another
file in just one click of the mouse.
MAX function – A function that returns the largest value in a set of values.

Merged cells – Two or more cells combined into a single cell.


MIN function – A function that determines the minimum value in a range of cells.

Mini toolbar – A formatting tool that appears above or below the shortcut menu when you
right-click a cell and that displays the most commonly used formatting commands.
Mixed cell reference – A cell reference that uses an absolute column or row reference, but
not both.
Named range – A group of cells, and occasionally a single cell, with a designated name.

Nested parentheses – Parentheses inside of parentheses within a formula.

Operand – An element that identifies the values to be used in a calculation.

Order of operations – The rules Excel follows to calculate any formula that contains two or
more operators.
Paste Special – A tool that enables you to control specifically what you want to paste after
using the Copy or Cut commands, such as cell content, formulas, values, formatting, and much
more.
Relative cell reference – A cell reference that adjusts the cell identifier automatically if you
insert or delete columns or rows, or if you copy the formula to another cell.
Rules Manager – A tool that enables you to set the order of multiple rules, fine-tune rule
settings, and more.
Scope – The location within which Excel recognizes a named range, which is either a specific
worksheet or the entire workbook.
Style – A set of formatting attributes that you can apply to a cell or range of cells more easily
than by setting each attribute individually.
SUM function – A function that totals all of the cells in a range.
Value – A number, a cell address, a date, text, or Boolean data in Excel. Regarding formulas,
it is usually a number or cell address.
Variable – A symbol or name that represents something else; it can be a cell address, a range
of cells, and so on.
Wrap – To automatically display data on the next line when it is too long to display within
the cell’s width. Wrapping automatically increases a cell’s height.

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