Displaying the column number

In spreadsheets, columns are referred to with letters. You can refer to columns as numbers by using a formula.

To display the column numbers, do the following steps:

1. Select a cell.
2. On the Formula Input Line, enter =column(cell_reference) and press Enter. For example, to display the column number of cell D7, enter =column(D7). If you leave the cell_reference empty, the column number of the current-selected cell is displayed.