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Module 3. Topics 1-3 Vocabulary

This document defines 50 terms related to Excel features, functions, and formatting. It includes vocabulary words like autofilter, column heading, filter, freeze, gridlines, hide, macro, page break, print preview, row heading, subtotal, table, validation, and zoom. The terms cover a range of Excel topics including filtering data, outlining and grouping, formatting worksheets, printing options, and more.

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Module 3. Topics 1-3 Vocabulary

This document defines 50 terms related to Excel features, functions, and formatting. It includes vocabulary words like autofilter, column heading, filter, freeze, gridlines, hide, macro, page break, print preview, row heading, subtotal, table, validation, and zoom. The terms cover a range of Excel topics including filtering data, outlining and grouping, formatting worksheets, printing options, and more.

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Excel 2016 – Module 3.

Topics 1-3 Vocabulary


Autofilter - A built-in set of filtering capabilities.

Auto-outline - A feature that automatically groups selected rows in Excel.

Boundary - The line between rows or columns.

Collapse - To condense groups into single-row headings called outlines.

Column heading - The identifying letter of a column.

Column width - The left-to-right measurement of a column.

Criterion - A condition you specify to limit which records are returned when filtering data.

Data file - An electronic file that stores a series of records in a relatively simple format.

Delimiter - A character that separates data entries from one another.

Document theme - A predefined set of colors, fonts, and effects that can be applied to an entire
workbook or to specific items in a workbook.

Effects - Something that modifies the appearance of an object.

Filter - A restriction that Excel uses to determine which worksheet rows to display.

Find command - A command to help you search for certain content.

Footer - Lines of text that appear at the bottom of each page.

Freeze - To prevent portions of a worksheet from moving on the screen.

Gridlines - The lines that display around worksheet cells.

Grouping - Organizing data so it can be viewed as a collapsible and expandable outline.

Header - A line of text that appears at the top of each page of a printed worksheet.

Hide - To make a worksheet invisible.

Macro - A series of steps you record that you might want to repeat frequently to save time.

Orientation - The position of the content in a worksheet, so that it prints either vertically or
horizontally on a page.

Outline - Single-row headings.

Outline symbol - Symbols that add controls next to the row and column headings to change the
view of an outlined worksheet.

Page break - A divider that breaks a worksheet into separate pages for printing.

Page Break Preview - An Excel view in which you can quickly adjust automatic page breaks to
achieve a more desirable printed document.
Pane - A portion of a divided window.

Parse - To separate into components. Also, to interpret character by character.

Print Preview - An Excel view that enables you to see what your document will look like before
sending it to the printer.

Quick format - Predefined formatting in Excel that enables you to apply an elaborate format that
makes a table look sleek and professional.

Replace command - An Excel feature that allows you to add content to a text box and replace any
matches Excel finds

Row heading - The identifying letter of a row.

Row height - The top-to-bottom measurement of a row.

Scaling - Shrinking or stretching printed output to a percentage of its actual size.

Slicer - One of the ways to filter a table so that it shows only records containing a certain object.

Subtotal - The sum of values that are grouped together.

Table - A range of cells in a worksheet that contains related data and can be used by a lookup
function.

Transposing - Changes your cell data to change orientation.

Unhide - To make a worksheet visible again.

Validation - A feature in Excel that ensures data is entered correctly, before it is processed incorrectly.

Watermark - Text or a picture that appears in the background of a document; it is similar to a sheet
background in Excel.

White space - The empty area of a document in which no content appears.

Zoom - An Excel feature that allows you to make a worksheet appear bigger or smaller.

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