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| Excel | A spreadsheet program composed of reports that are used for business and financial applications that analyze data in a table format. |
| label | In Excel this is generally text data |
| .xlx | filename extension for Excel documents |
| value | A number or symbol (+-.+$) entered as the first character in a cell. |
| numeric label | A number that will not be used in calculation-examples-social security numbers or id numbers. |
| formula | An instruction to calculate a number. |
| range | A defined area of a worksheet. |
| absolute reference | A value in a formula that remains constant when copied to other locations. |
| relative reference | When formulas are copied, the cell references change relative to their new locations. |
| function | A built-in formula that performs a special calculation automatically. |