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What is Excel Work Sheet

Excel is the collection of work book(s) of entity with the range of work sheets
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WorkBook
What is Work Book? Work book is the collection of one or more work sheets

What is Work Sheet?


Worksheet is the digital working panel with rows and column table like structure
It can be visualized as the digital work book with the similarity of ruled note book /graph Sheet where as the word document is of the digital work book similar to UNRULED Note Book Columns can be treated as unique entity headings

Rows are for the entity values (treated as Unique ROW SETS)

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What is Excel Work Sheet


In paragraph Style Format as in WORD Document, the Employee Details are to be indicated with each line heading like this link_doc.doc EMP No Name Date of Birth Date of Appt Dt of Retirement : 999999 : XXXXXXXXXXXXXX : 99/99/99 (or) 99-AAA-9999 or (some other formats) : 99/99/99 (or) 99-AAA-9999 or (some other formats) : 99/99/99 (or) 99-AAA-9999 or (some other formats)

The headings in RED label are to be repeated for each address entry to differentiate one from other in this word documented version. But in EXCEL Format, the same may be like this link_file.xls The Column headings need not be repeated Some fields may be of pre-calculated formula field so user need not worry on the data entry on this field. Look & Feel Effect on the data Any lay user can feed in the data Sorting of column wise data is possible and so on Which is having more feature excel or word?

Worksheet & Workbook Limitations


Feature Maximum limit Limited by available memory and system resources

Open workbooks

Worksheet size
Column width Row height Page breaks Length of cell contents (text)

65,536 rows by 256 columns


255 characters 409 points 35790 32,767 characters. Only 1,024 display in a cell All 32,767 display in the formula bar. Limited by available memory (default is 3 sheets)

Sheets in a workbook

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