Microsoft calls it the Select All button too:


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...CH100648141033

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

Dave Peterson wrote:
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 wrote:

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




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