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Term
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Definition
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Audit feature
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A feature that enables you to review the structure and behavior of the formulas in your worksheet
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Comment
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A text box that is attached to a specific cell in a worksheet
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Dependent cells
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Cells that use the value in the active cell in their formulas
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Discussion Server
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A server that maintain the comments that appear in a Web discussion
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Error indicators
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A green triangle in the upper-left corner of a cells and indicates that an error or potential error exists in the formula of a cell.
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Error value
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Begins with a number sign (#) followed by an error name and indicates that Excel was unable to properly evaluate a formula
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Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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A language for the internet that provides a method for transferring structured data between a variety of application and computer systems.
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Hypertext document
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An electronic file containing elements called links that provide access to other hypertext documents
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
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The common language of the Internet
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Interactive Web page
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A web page where the user can switch between worksheets, enter or edit data, format value, and change formulas on each sheet on the Web page
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Internet
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The most popular and far-reaching extended network
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Message Application Programming Interface (MAPI)
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A set of standards that allows documents to be attached to an e-mail message
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Network (or Local Area Network (LAN))
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Computers linked together to share files and hardware resources
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Noninteractive Web page
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A web page where user can scroll through the contents of an Excel workbook and switch between worksheets, but they cannot make any changes to the data or formatting displayed in the Web page
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Precedent cells
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The cells that are referred to in the formula of the active cell
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Routing
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Causing Excel to attach the file and a routing slip to the e-mail message
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ScreenTips
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Pop-up labels that appear whenever a user hovers the pointer over a hyperlink
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Shared workbook
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A workbook that can be edited simultaneously y more than one user
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Suspect formula
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A formula where a mistake has been made
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Tracer arrows
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Arrows that show the relationship between the active cell and its related cells
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Tracking log
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A file that keeps track of rejected changes
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Web browser
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An application that is used to view Web pages
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Web browser
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A software program that retrieves the hypertext file from the Web server and then displays the document in the user’s computer.
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Web page
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A hypertext document
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Web servers
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The computers that store Web sites
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Web site
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A collection of Web pages
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