Cell Addresses

In today's world of information, there is a need to keep things organized and up-to-date. People need to organize department budgets, project sales for the upcoming year, even balance their own checkbook. With all of the numbers that are thrown out on a daily basis, a spreadsheet becomes a powerful tool for not only organizing information, but to alleviate most of the work people did on paper in the past.

In Microsoft Excel,a spreadsheet is divided into boxes called cells. There are almost 17,000,000 cells on a single sheet. Excel, like all spreadsheets, uses a system of row and column headings to identify each cell in a spreadsheet. Columns are lettered A..Z, then AA..AZ, BA..BZ, and so on, until the 256th column, column IV. There are also 65,536 rows in an Excel spreadsheet, each of them numbered. When you identify a specific cell, you identify it by its column and its row, much like finding your opponent's ships in the game "Battleship". Take a look at the following example:

A is located in cell A3 B is located in cell D7 C is located in cell B12