Incidentally, an Excel cell can hold approximately 32,000 characters.Ī worksheet can span an eye-popping 16,000 columns and 1 million rows. Figure 1-3 shows this cell, which looks like a rectangular box. For example, C6 is the address of a cell in column C (the third column) and row 6 (the sixth row). Excel uniquely identifies each cell by column letter and row number. The smallest unit in your worksheet is the cell. Excel names columns using letters (A, B, C…), and labels rows using numbers (1, 2, 3…). The grid divides your worksheet into rows and columns.
