For many small business owners, Microsoft Excel is not only a powerful tool for internal tracking and bookkeeping, but it can also be used to prepare documents for distribution to partners or customers. When creating a spreadsheet for distribution, controlling the spreadsheet's appearance ensures it appears professional to colleagues and outside contacts. Excel offers two types of column headings; the letters the Excel assigns to each column, which you can toggle in both view and print modes, or the headings that you create yourself and place in the spreadsheet's first row, which you can then freeze in place.
Excel refers to rows by number and columns by letter, starting the first row at one and the first column with "A". For some purposes, this is fine, but you often want to add your own column labels in Excel specifying for yourself and other people using the spreadsheet what each column contains.
For instance, if each row is an employee record, you might label columns with headers such as "first name", "last name", "email address" and the like.
This Excel tutorial explains how to change column headings from numbers (1, 2, 3, 4) back to letters (A, B, C, D) in Excel 2016 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions). Question: In Microsoft Excel 2016, my Excel spreadsheet has numbers for both rows and columns. How do I change the column headings back to letters such as A, B, C, D? Answer: Traditionally, column headings are represented by letters such as A, B, C, D. If your spreadsheet shows the columns as numbers, you can change the headings back to letters with a few easy steps. In the example below, the column headings are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 instead of the traditional A, B, C, D values that you normally see in Excel. When the column headings are numeric values, R1C1 reference style is being displayed in the spreadsheet. To change the column headings to letters, select the File tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen and then click on Options at the bottom of the menu. When the Excel Options window appears, click on the Formulas option on the left. Then uncheck the option called "R1C1 reference style" and click on the OK button. Now when you return to your spreadsheet, the column headings should be letters (A, B, C, D) instead of numbers (1, 2, 3, 4). Which of the following will result in error in Excel? I. Dividing a number by 0 II. Multiplying a number by 0 III. Looking up non-existent value in lookup functions IV. Looking up values in a list containing more than ten lookup-values (1 Point) I and II II and III I and III I, II and III
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