Term

Definition

AutoFormat

A feature that lets you choose an appearance for your worksheet cells from a gallery of 17 predefined formats

Font

The design applied to characters, letters, and punctuation marks

Font name(typeface)

The identifying name of a font design

Footer

Text printed at the bottom of every page

Format Painter

A feature where you “Paint” a format from one cell to another cell or to a range of cells

Formatting

The process of changing the appearance of a workbook

Formatting

The process of changing the appearance of your workbook

General Format

A format that aligns numbers with the right edge of the cell without dollar signs or commands, uses the minus sign for negative values, and truncates any trailing zeros to the right of the decimal place.

General number format

A format where the number display just the way you enter them

Gridlines

Lines in the worksheet that provide a visual cue for the layout of the cells in a worksheet

Header

Text printed in the top margin of every worksheet page

Landscape Orientation

The orientation that displays the page wider than it is tall.

Margins

The spaces between the page content and the edges of the page

Page Break

A pace in a worksheet where a new page is forced

Page Orientation

A specification which determines if the page is wider than it is tall or taller than it is wide

Portrait Orientation

The orientation that displays the page taller than it is wide and it the default orientation.

Print area

A specified portion of a worksheet that you want to be printed

Print Preview Window

A window that shows you how each page of your worksheet will look when it is printed

Style

A saved collection of formatting options – number formats,; text alignment; font sizes and colors; border; and background fills – that can be applied to cells in the worksheet

Typeface

A specific design of a set of printed characters, including letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols