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| accountant | people who audit and inspect the financial records of a business |
| work sheet | a columnar form used in accounting |
| "what if" projections | estimates of the effects of various courses of action, computed on a spreadsheet |
| columns | the vertical divisions on a spreadsheet |
| rows | the horizontal divisions on a spreadsheet |
| cell | the junction between a column and a row; a location where one piece of data is stored |
| status area | the information area of a software program, which is displayed at the top or bottom of the CRT |
| file name | a unique destination to identify a set of information |
| help screen | guidelines and instructions to help program users through a particular software program |
| commands | a combination of keystrokes understood by the specific software program to perform certain operations |
| labels | the identifying names is a spreadsheet |
| values | the numerical data on which calculations are performed |
| formulas | mathematical operations used to make calculations in spreadsheets |
| functions | mathematical operations predefined by the specific spreadsheet software program |
| default setting | formats which are preset by the software but can be changed by the user |
| formatting | preparing a document by making adjustments to the software program to achieve a desired physical arrangement of data |
| block or range | a group of cells forming a contiguous rectangle on which to perform a spreadsheet operation |
| contiguous | touching or connecting in an unbroken series |
| relative cell references | cell locations are automatically updated when a formula is copied or when changes are made to the spreadsheet |
| absolute cell references | the cell reference is not updated when the formula is coped to another cell or when changes are made in the spreadsheet |
