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| 1. To start a new line in a cell, press _____ after each line, except for the last line, which is completed by clicking the Enter box, pressing the ENTER key, or pressing one of the arrow keys. |
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| 2. All of the following are valid Excel arithmetic operators except _____. |
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| 3. When Excel follows the order of operations, the formula, 8 * 3 + 2, equals _____. |
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| 4. When an error occurs in a formula in a cell, Excel displays the _____ button next to the cell and identifies the cell with the error by placing a green triangle in the upper left of the cell. |
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| 5. The _____ button lists formatting options following an insert of cells, row, or columns. |
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| 6. In Excel, functions can be entered using any of the following methods except the _____. |
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| a. Function command on the Tools menu |
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| 7. To save a saved workbook using a new name or on a different drive, _____. |
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| b. click Save As on the File menu |
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| 8. If Range Finder is used to change cells referenced in a formula, press the _____ key to complete the edit. |
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| 9. A(n) _____ dollar sign always appears immediately to the left of the first digit. |
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| 10. The _____ in the Conditional Formatting dialog box can be used to remove one or more active conditions. |
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| 11. When Excel starts and the blank worksheet displays on the screen, all of the columns have a default width of _____. |
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| a. 8.43 characters, or 64 pixels |
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| 12. To set a column width to best fit, _____ boundary of the column heading above row 1. |
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| d. double-click the right |
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| 13. To instruct Excel to display a hidden column, position the mouse pointer to the _____. |
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| d. right of the column heading boundary where the hidden column is located and then drag to the right |
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| 14. To check the spelling of the text in a single cell, _____ to make the formula bar active and then click the Spelling button on the Standard toolbar. |
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| 15. If a single cell is selected so that the formula bar is not active and then the spell checker is started, Excel checks _____. |
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| b. the remainder of the worksheet, including notes and embedded charts |
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| 16. Rather than click the Next and Previous buttons to move from page to page in the Preview window, the _____ keys can be pressed. |
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| 17. When the mouse pointer shape is a magnifying glass, the previewed page in the Preview window can be clicked to carry out the function of the _____ button. |
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| 18. Excel does not display the Print dialog box shown in the accompanying figure when the _____ is used. |
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| d. Print button on the Standard toolbar |
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| 19. In the Print dialog box shown in the accompanying figure, the _____ instructs Excel to print the selected range. |
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| a. Selection option button |
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| 20. In the Print dialog shown in the accompanying figure, the _____instructs Excel to print the worksheet currently on the screen or the selected worksheets. |
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| c. Active sheet(s) option button |
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| 21. In the Print dialog box shown in the accompanying figure, the _____ instructs Excel to print all the worksheets with content in the workbook. |
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| a. Entire workbook option button |
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| 22. To toggle between the values version and the formulas version of a worksheet, hold down the _____ key. |
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| c. CTRL key while pressing the ACCENT MARK (`) |
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| 23. When Excel first is installed, all of the following Web queries are available except _____. |
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| d. MSN MoneyCentral Investor Commodity Prices |
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| 24. To change the stock symbols Excel uses when refreshing the data in a Web query, click the _____ on the External Data toolbar. |
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| b. Query Parameters button |
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| 25. To rename sheets, double-click the sheet tab in the lower-left corner of the window, type the new sheet name, and then _____. |
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| 1. If a formula is entered into cell F4 to multiply the values in cells D4 and E4, Excel recalculates the product whenever new values are entered into those cells and displays the result in cell F4. |
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| 2. The arithmetic operator, ^, directs Excel to perform the division operation. |
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| 3. Cell references in formulas must be entered in uppercase, and spaces cannot be added before or after arithmetic operators |
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| 4. Regardless of the length and complexity of a formula, using Point mode to enter formulas always is slower and less accurate than using the keyboard. |
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| 5. When a formula is copied, Excel adjusts the cell references so the new formulas contain references corresponding to the new location and performs calculations using the appropriate values. |
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| 6. A smart tag indicator is a block plus sign located in the center of the cell. |
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| 7. The AVERAGE function requires that the argument (the range) be included within parentheses before the function name. |
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| 8. When Point mode is used to enter a formula or function, the arrow keys can be used to complete the entry. |
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| 9. The AutoSum button menu allows one of five often-used functions to be entered easily into a cell without requiring that its name or the required arguments be memorized. |
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| 10. Excel has more than 400 functions. |
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| 11. One of the least common mistakes made with Excel is to include the wrong cell reference in a formula. |
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| 12. To use Range Finder to verify that a formula contains the intended cell references, right-click the cell with the formula to be checked. |
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| 13. Excel allows you to change the font of all the characters in a cell, in a range of cells, or in the entire worksheet. |
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| 14. The font type, size, or style can be changed at any time while a worksheet is active. |
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| 15. Left alignment, center alignment, and right alignment are used so rarely that Excel relegates the Align Left, Center, and Align Right buttons to the Standard toolbar. |
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| 16. Excel does not allow the contents of a cell to be aligned vertically. |
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| 17. To assign a fixed dollar sign, the Cells command on the Format menu or the Format Cells command on the shortcut menu must be used. |
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| 18. The Comma Style button is located on the Formatting toolbar. |
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| 19. Each time the Decrease Decimal button is clicked, Excel removes a decimal place from the selected cell. |
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| 20. Once you select a category in the Format Cells dialog box, you cannot select whether or not a dollar sign should be displayed or how negative numbers should appear. |
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| 21. All of the available negative number formats align the numbers in a worksheet on the decimal points. |
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| 22. When using conditional formatting, if the condition is true, then Excel applies the formatting. |
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| 23. A character is a dot on the screen that contains a color. |
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| 24. A pixel is defined as a letter, number, symbol, or punctuation mark in 10-point Arial font, the default font used by Excel. |
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| 25. The default row height in a blank worksheet is 12.75 points (or 17 pixels). |
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| 26. When the format assigned to a cell causes the entry to exceed the width of a column, Excel automatically changes the column width to best fit. |
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| 27. If column width is decreased to zero, the column is hidden. |
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| 28. When a worksheet is printed, hidden columns print. |
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| 29. Row height can vary between zero (0) and 409 points. |
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| 30. To skip correcting a word identified by the spell checker, click the Ignore Once button in the Spelling dialog box. |
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| 31. If a cell other than cell A1 is selected before starting the spell checker, a dialog box will display when the spell checker reaches the end of the worksheet, asking if the spell checker should continue checking at the beginning. |
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| 32. You can preview a worksheet using the Print Preview button on the menu bar. |
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| 33. Previewing a worksheet can save time, paper, and the frustration of waiting for a printout only to discover it is not what you want. |
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| 34. Once you change the orientation and save a workbook, Excel will save the orientation setting for that workbook until you change it. |
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| 35. When a new workbook is opened, Excel sets the orientation to landscape. |
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| 36. The Page Setup dialog box allows changes to be made to the default settings for a printout. |
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| 37. Scaling can be used to fit a wide worksheet on one page. |
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| 38. Excel displays the Print dialog box when you use the Print button on the Standard toolbar. |
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| 39. You can print portions of a worksheet by selecting the range of cells to print and then clicking the Selection option button in the Print what area in the Print dialog box. |
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| 40. The formulas version of a worksheet usually is significantly narrower than the values version. |
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| 41. To import external data from a World Wide Web site, it is necessary to have access to the Internet. |
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| 42. The data returned by stock-related Web queries is real-time in the sense that it is no more than 20 minutes old during the business day. |
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| 43. Instead of using the External Data toolbar, any Web query command also can be invoked by right-clicking the returned worksheet to display a shortcut menu with several of the same commands as the External Data toolbar. |
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| 44. The tabs at the bottom of the worksheet window allow any of the worksheets in the workbook to be viewed. |
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| 45. Worksheet names can be up to 31 characters (including spaces) in length. |
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| 46. Longer worksheet names mean that more tabs will display. |
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| 47. The leftmost and rightmost scroll buttons to the left of the sheet tabs move one worksheet to the left or right. |
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| 48. The two middle scroll buttons to the left of the sheet tabs move to the first or last worksheet in the workbook. |
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| 49. With Excel, users have the capability of e-mailing a worksheet or workbook directly from within Excel. |
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| 50. When a workbook is sent as an attachment to an e-mail, the recipient can double-click the attachment to open it in Excel, or save it on disk and then open it at a later time. |
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| 1. One of the reasons Excel is such a valuable tool is that a(n) _________________________ can be assigned to a cell and Excel will calculate the result. |
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| 2. The _________________________ preceding a formula is important because it alerts Excel that a formula or function is being entered and not text. |
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| 3. When more than one arithmetic operator is involved in a formula, Excel follows the same basic _________________________ that is used in algebra. |
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| 4. _________________________ allows cells to be selected for use in a formula by using the mouse. |
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| 5. Excel can identify certain actions to take on specific data (including dates, financial symbols, people’s names, and more) using _________________________. |
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| 6. Excel places a small purple triangle, called a(n) _________________________, in a cell to indicate that a smart tag is available. |
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| 7. A blank cell in Excel has a numerical value of _________________________. |
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| 8. A(n) _________________________ takes a value or values, performs an operation, and returns a result to the cell. |
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| 9. The values used with a function are called _________________________. |
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| 10. The _________________________ is a function that sums the numbers in the specified range and then divides the sum by the number of non-zero cells in the range. |
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| 11. Excel has a function called the _________________________ that displays the highest value in a range. |
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| 12. The _________________________ is a function used to determine the lowest number in a range. |
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| 13. Excel’s _________________________ can be used to check which cells are referenced in the formula assigned to the active cell. |
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| 14. The _________________________ is a format that displays numbers with a dollar sign to the left of the number, inserts a comma every three positions to the left of the decimal point, and rounds numbers to the nearest cent. |
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| 15. A(n) _________________________ is a dollar sign that appears to the far left in a cell, often with spaces between it and the first digit. |
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| 16. A(n) floating dollar sign is a dollar sign that appears immediately to the left of the first digit in a cell with no _________________________. |
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