Question

Microsoft Excel Assessment
Cell A2 contains the value 8 and cell B2 contains the value 9. What happens when cells A2 and B2 are merged and then unmerged?

Answer 1

Answer:

Cell A2 contains the value 8 and cell B2 is empty.

Cells can be merged and unmerged. Although you can't split a single cell, you can make it appear like it has been split by combining the cells above it. When two or more adjacent horizontal or vertical cells are merged, they produce a single bigger cell that spans many columns or rows.

Answer 2

When cells A2 and B2 are merged and then unmerged then cell A2 will have the value 8 and cell B2 will be empty.

Explanation

When cells having content/values are merged then it will only keep the top-leftmost value in the merged cell. And when the cells are unmerged then all cells will become empty except the top-leftmost cell which will have the value which was in the merged cell.

Extra Information

In Excel, columns are named as A, B, C, D, E, F, and so on.

In Excel, rows are named as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and so on.

Cells in an Excel sheet are made with intersections of rows and columns.

Cell Address is used to identify a cell on an Excel Sheet and Cell Address comprises of a letter and a number. The letter shows the column and the number shows the row.

Example

A1

In this, it is the cell that is present in column A and row 1.

D6

In this, it is the cell that is present in column D and row 6.

Function is a predefined formula that allows users to perform mathematical, statistical, and logical operations.

There are various functions in Microsoft Excel some of them are:

1. SUM

2. AVERAGE

3. COUNT

4. IF

5. MAX

6. MIN

Format of writing a function in a cell of Excel Spreadsheet

1. Name of Function (Range of Cells i.e. Starting Cell : Ending Cell)

Example

=AVERAGE(A1:A3)

2. Name of Function (Each Cell Address separated with a comma(,))

Example

=AVERAGE(A1,A2,A3)

Example

Suppose you want to add values present in cells from A1 to A5 and display the sum in A6.

First, write the values in A1 to A5 and then click on A6 cell and type=SUM(A1:A5)

After that press "Enter"

In the A6 cell, you will get the sum of values present in cells from A1 to A5.

In case you have typed the wrong formula or want to modify it then you can click on the cell where you have written the formula and there will be a Formula Bar available above the worksheet area which will show the formula which you have written in the cell and you can edit it.