From the course: Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365)
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Understanding workbooks and worksheets
From the course: Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365)
Understanding workbooks and worksheets
- [Instructor] As you work with Excel, there are few terms that you should be using consistently. In Excel, a file is a workbook. This current workbook has multiple worksheets in it. If you create a new file in Excel, it will have a temporary name like book one or book two, and at some point you'll save it and give it a name. A workbook is a file, a file is a workbook, and nearly always we can use those two terms interchangeably. Initially, a workbook has one worksheet in it, but you can add additional sheets easily, and you can have an almost unlimited number depending upon their size. Every worksheet has exactly the same number of cells as these rectangular areas here, and every worksheet has columns and rows, and let's never use the two terms interchangeably. We know what columns look like in a building, they're vertical, they hold up the building. And as I press the right arrow here on this particular screen, we're…
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