Data is a collection of facts. When those facts are organized into a meaningful group, the data becomes information. Data can be displayed as numbers or text in Excel.
A set of data can be described to the spreadsheet as a range by specifying the beginning cell, in the upper left corner of the data, and the ending cell, in the lower right corner of the data.
Numeric data may be formatted as dollars and cents, with commas separating hundreds and thousands, in various formats for different countries, with a given number of decimal points, in exponential...