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Excel Spreadsheets Glossary of Terms - Cell Definition

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Definition:
In any spreadsheet program such as Excel, each rectangular box in
a worksheet is referred to as a cell.
A cell is the intersection point of a vertical column and a horizontal
row.
Data entered into Excel is always stored in a cell. Each cell can hold
only one piece of data at a time.
In the newest versions of Excel there are over 17 billion cells in
each worksheet.

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To keep track of where data is stored, each cell has a cell reference consisting of the column letter and row number of where the cell is located.

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