Which out of the following is used as an electronic spread sheet?
- A.Microsoft Word
- B.Microsoft Power point
- C.Microsoft Excel
- D.Microsoft Access
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Microsoft Excel. An electronic spreadsheet stores data in a grid of rows and columns and recalculates its formulas whenever a value changes, and Excel is the spreadsheet program of the Microsoft Office suite. Its files carry the .xlsx extension from Excel 2007 onwards.
Option A, Microsoft Word, is a word processor, used to type, edit and format text documents that are saved with the .docx extension. Option B, Microsoft PowerPoint, is presentation software, used to build slides for a talk and saved with the .pptx extension. Option D, Microsoft Access, is the database management program of the suite; it also shows tables in a grid, which makes it the strongest distractor, but a database stores records in related tables and is queried, while a spreadsheet calculates cell by cell. Remember the pairing of the four programs with their jobs and this whole family of questions becomes easy.
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Practice Questions
View allIn MS - Excel, what is the shortcut key you can press to Select the entire row?
- A.Ctrl + Shift + Space
- B.Ctrl + Home
- C.Ctrl + Space
- D.Shift + Space
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Pressing Shift together with the spacebar selects the whole row that holds the active cell, from column A right across to the last column of the grid.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following displays both the name of the application and the name of the spreadsheet in MS-Excel?
- A.Title bar
- B.Tool bar
- C.Task bar
- D.Menu bar
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The title bar is the strip along the very top of the Excel window, and it carries the name of the open workbook followed by the name of the program, for example Book1 - Excel.
Read the full explanation →The 'LEN' function in MS-Excel belongs to which of the following categories?
- A.Financial
- B.Logical
- C.Text
- D.Math & Trig
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LEN returns the number of characters in an entry, counting letters, digits, punctuation and spaces alike, so =LEN("Excel") gives 5.
Read the full explanation →Which function key displays the Print Preview window in Microsoft Office?
- A.Alt + Ctrl + F2
- B.Alt + F2
- C.Shift + F2
- D.Ctrl + F2
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Ctrl together with F2 opens the print area of the Backstage view in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, where the page is shown exactly as it will be printed and the printer, copies, orientation and margins can be set.
Read the full explanation →What is the default file extension of a workbook created in MS Excel 2016?
- A..xls
- B..xlsx
- C..xlsm
- D..xltx
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From Excel 2007 onwards the suite moved to the Office Open XML formats, and a plain workbook saves with the.xlsx extension.
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