It is the cell selected at the current time. If you start typing, what you type will appear in that cell. Only one cell can be the active one, even when you have lots of cells selected. It will always be a different colour to other selected cells if others are selected.
I am not aware of a name menu in Excel. However, Excel has a name box that displays the name or cell reference of the active cell.
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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A 1 in Microsoft Excel is a value. A1 is a cell in column A and row 1.
You do not. Excel does not record the change date of an individual cell.
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A cell pointer in excel is just the cell where you point the cursor in which its row and column can be seen is called a cell pointer.
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If you see Ready on the status bar, it means Excel is ready for you to start typing something into the active cell. Once you start typing, you will see Enter there, or if you edit a cell you will see Edit there.
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