the 'cell' that allows you to automatically highlight all the data (below the name box in the corner

[showsomeidnow]

....does anybody know what it's called?

 

[Bernard Liengme]

It is not a cell. It is the intersection of the column and row headers.
I do not think it has a simple name.
best wishes

 

[Dave Peterson]

I call it the "select all" button--but nobody understands what I'm talking
about.

If you're trying to tell someone to select all the cells (over the phone??), you
may want to suggest using ctrl-a.

And depending on the version of excel, you may need to tell them to hit it a few
times (its behavior changed through the versions).

 

[showsomeidnow]

thank you kindly all for all of the answers. you are all extremely
helpful.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

Microsoft calls it the Select All button too:


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP012163831033.aspx?pid=CH100648141033

There's a picture in the 'Change the column width to fit the contents'
section.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I wasn't sure if it was BillG or me who came up with that term. We discussed
lots of things in that meeting.

<vbg>

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

Was that the same meeting where you created Clippy?

I wasn't sure if it was BillG or me who came up with that term. We discussed
lots of things in that meeting.

<vbg>

 

[Dave Peterson]

I blame BillG for that. OTOH, Bob was my idea. <gd&r>

Was that the same meeting where you created Clippy?

 

[Bob I]

Did he kiss you ;-)
http://www.klippert.com/TCC/Blog/2007/04/microsoft-bob.html

I blame BillG for that. OTOH, Bob was my idea. <gd&r>

 

[Dave Peterson]

Nope. But you don't want to know what happened to Clippy!

Did he kiss you ;-)
http://www.klippert.com/TCC/Blog/2007/04/microsoft-bob.html