There are all sorts of simple formatting you could do. Change the colour of the cell. Change the colour of the contents. Bold the contents. Put it into Italics. Increase the font size. Underline it. Put a border around it. You could use any of these or a combination of them. You will find all of these options on the Formatting Toolbar or through the Format Menu and Cells.
They are called CELLS .
If it is the standard one that surrounds all cells, it is a gridline. If it is heavier and made to have the cell stand out, it would be a border.
A cell is the smallest unit in Excel, you cannot break it into multiple cells. However, if you have merged multiple cells into one large cell, you can break that merged cell into multiple cells by unmerging the single large merged cell.
Depending on what you mean, it could be a range, which is a group of cells in Excel, that can be referenced in a formula as a block, but they are not a single cell then. You could be referring to cells that have been merged, in which case Excel treats them as a single cell.
The intersection of a row and a column is a cell.
to select cells
In effect a cell in Excel is a box where either text, number or formula can be placed.
Each intersection of a row and column is a cell. So it will depend on which version of Excel you have There are 16,777,216 cells in Excel 2003 and earlier. There are 17,179,869,184 cells in Excel 2007 and after.
It copies what is in the selected cell or cells at that time.
Format / Cells / Date
At any one time you can only be working on one cell in Excel, like when you are typing data. Even if you have many cells selected, only one can actually be used. That cell is the active cell. All other cells are inactive. So an inactive cell is any cell that is not the active cell.
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