Excel Vocabulary
Here some basic vocabulary used in Excel.
A Workbook is the file. It can contain many worksheets, sheets or spreadsheets (you can chose the name.
A Spreadsheet or Sheet is the surface on which you enter your data.
Ribbons are menus. But they are not called Menu anymore because they are visual, made of images, rather than text.
Fill handle The small black square at the bottom-right corner of the cell or the selection. When you move your mouse on the fill handle, the pointer changes to a cross.
.xls is the extension of the Excel Files before 2007.
.xlsx: is a normal Excel file (from 2007)
.xlsm: is an Excel File that includes macro or VBA code.
.xlst: is for templates in Excel. If you save a file with this name and then double click on it, it will open with a new file name called untitled.xlsx. That you can then rename at will.
VBA: Visual Basic for Application. It is the programming language of the Microsoft Environment
More words to come....ogo on our forum if you have a question,
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