Enter Data on a Sheet

After you create a workbook, you enter data into it—specifically, you enter the data into a worksheet contained within the workbook.

What exactly is this data we’re referring to? When you think of "data," you might envision the opening screen from the movie The Matrix, with millions of little green characters you’re supposed to be able to read even though they’re streaming down the screen backward or in Kanji (a writing system for the Japanese language that uses pictorial characters).

Enter Data on a Sheet

Digital rain, from the movie The Matrix, as a representation of data.

Totally Random Thought

After the release of the first Matrix movie, a lot of ...

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