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| Alignment | Left-right or up-down positioning of text. |
| AutoFit | Setting for tables and cells that automatically adjusts the content to fit the space available or the cell size to fit the content. |
| AutoFormat | Feature of Excel that enables a set of preset formatting effects to be added to a table of data, including shading, borders, and font settings. |
| Borders | Setting used in Word or Excel to outline; can include different colors, line thicknesses, or other effects. |
| Cell | Intersection of a row and a column in a spreadsheet or table. |
| Cell range | Group of cells selected or identified in Excel specified by listing the top-left cell of the range followed by a colon and the cell in the lower-right corner of the range. |
| Cell style | Set of preset formatting options that can be applied to a cell including shading, borders and font settings. |
| Column | Vertical group of cells in a Word table or Excel spreadsheet. |
| Fill color | Tool used in Word or Excel to add a color or texture to the background of a cell. |
| Fill handle | Symbol located at the bottom right corner of a selected cell range that allows the user to drag and expand the range to automatically fill data, such as a list of dates or numbers. |
| Formula bar | Area in Excel just below the Ribbon where the contents of a selected cell appear; where the user enters functions and formulas. |
| Freeze panes | Feature in Excel that locks rows and columns in place so they remain visible while the rest of the worksheet scrolls. |
| Heading | Text styles used to organize a document into different levels of topics and sub-topics. Also the first row or column in an Excel spreadsheet. |
| Label | List of numbers at the far left of a spreadsheet that label each row of cells. |
| Merge cells | A function in database software that allows multiple adjacent cells to be combined into a single larger cell. |
| Name box | Area just above the grid at the upper left of an Excel worksheet that shows the coordinates of whatever cell is currently selected. |
| Row | Horizontal group of cells in a Word table or Excel spreadsheet. |
| Spreadsheet | In which figures are arranged in the rows and columns of a grid. |
| Table style | Pre-formatted settings that can be applied to a table in Word or Excel including font settings, shading, and border effects. |
| Workbook | Excel spreadsheet document that contains several individual spreadsheets called worksheets. |
| Worksheet | Single sheet within an Excel spreadsheet workbook. |
| Wrap text | Feature in Excel that causes text entered into a cell to wrap to a new line when it encounters the right-hand edge of the cell. |