What are individual columns?

A column is like a vertical line in a table that holds all the same kind of information.

Imagine you have a toy box full of different kinds of blocks, some red, some blue, and some green. If you wanted to organize them by color, you might make three separate piles: one for red blocks, one for blue blocks, and one for green blocks. Each pile is like a column in a table.

In a table, each column holds all the same kind of information, just like how each pile in your toy box holds all the blocks of the same color. If you're making a list of your favorite fruits and you write them down in rows, each fruit is in its own row. But if you want to group them by type, say apples, bananas, and oranges, then each type would be a column.

If rows are like horizontal lines that hold different pieces of information about one thing (like one person or one toy), columns are like vertical piles that hold the same kind of information for many things. So if you're writing down everyone's favorite fruit in your class, each column could be a type of fruit, and every name would be in its own row.

Columns help keep everything neat and easy to read!