| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | absolute cell reference | 绝对单元格交叉引用 (In a formula, the exact address of a cell, regardless of the position of the cell that contains the formula) |
| comp., MS | active cell | 活动单元格 (The selected cell in which data is entered when you begin typing. Only one cell is active at a time. The active cell is bounded by a heavy border) |
| comp., MS | cell padding | 单元格填充 (The space between the inside edge of a cell and its content) |
| comp., MS | cell reference | 单元格引用 (The set of coordinates that a cell occupies on a worksheet. For example, the reference of the cell that appears at the intersection of column B and row 3 is B3) |
| comp., MS | cell spacing | 单元格间距 (The distance between the cells of a table or workbook) |
| comp., MS | character cell | 字符单元 (A rectangular block of pixels that represents the space in which a given character is drawn on the screen. Computer displays use different numbers of pixels as character cells. Character cells are not always the same size for a given font, however; for proportionally spaced fonts, such as those commonly displayed on the Apple Macintosh, the height within a given font remains the same, but the width varies with each character) |
| comp., MS | current cell | 当前单元格 (The selected cell in which data is entered when you begin typing. Only one cell is active at a time. The active cell is bounded by a heavy border) |
| comp., MS | free cell | 空白格 (In the FreeCell game, the four card locations in the upper-left corner of the screen. Each cell holds one card) |
| comp., MS | holding cell | 放牌格 (In the FreeCell game, the four card locations in the upper-left corner of the screen. Each cell holds one card) |
| comp., MS | home cell | 主格 (One of the four card locations in the upper-right corner of the screen) |
| comp., MS | input cell | 可变单元格 (The cell in which each input value from a data table is substituted. Any cell on a worksheet can be the input cell. Although the input cell does not need to be part of the data table, the formulas in data tables must refer to the input cell) |
| comp., MS | layout cell | 布局单元格 (A cell in a layout table) |
| comp., MS | locked cell | 锁定的单元格 (A cell in an Add-in for Excel matrix that is not modified when spreading is conducted) |
| comp., MS | merged cell | 合并单元格 (A single cell that is created by combining two or more selected cells. The cell reference for a merged cell is the upper-left cell in the original selected range) |
| comp., MS | peak cell rate | 信元峰值速率 (In Asynchronous Transfer Mode, the rate of cells per second that the source device may never exceed) |
| comp., MS | single-mapped cell | 唯一映射单元格 (A cell that has been linked to a non-repeating element in an XML map) |
| comp., MS | work cell | 工作单元 (A resource group that participates in a production flow activity) |