An electronic spreadsheet is also referred to as a worksheet, which is the document that you produce when you use Exce. On campus we use Microsoft Excel. The worksheet window contains a grid of columns and rows. The worksheet windows displays only a tiny fraction of the whole worksheet, which has a total of 256 columns and 65,536 rows. The intersection of a columna and a row is a cell .
Cells contain text, numbers, formulas, or a combination of all three.
Every cell has its own unique location or cell address , which is identified by the coordinates of the intersectiog columna and row. For example, the cell address of the cell in the upper-left corner of a worksheet is A1. The cell pointer is a dark rectangle that highlights the cell you are working in, or the active cell . To make a cell active, click on the cell or press the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the cell pointer to another cell in the worksheet. The title bar also contains a control menu box, a close button and resizing buttons.