Help in Cell Definition

Hello,
Can you please anybody tell us , what do you mean by help cell in Cell defintion.
Thanks
PT

Hi,
Help Cells:
Choose Help Cells, if you require additional cells for help selections or help formulas. You can use the functions New Selection and New Formula in the context menu to define help cells that are not displayed in the query to serve only as objects for help selections and help formulas.
For example, you can define an invoice in a help cell and use this in a u201Crealu201D cell to calculate a duplicated invoice.
                            a.      Right-click on the empty cell next to Help Cells to get to a context menu. From here, choose New Selection.
                            b.      Use Drag & Drop to drag the Invoice key figure into the right-hand area of the New Selection dialog box.
                            c.      Enter a description.
                            d.      Choose OK. The cell contains the description of the selection. The symbol shows you that a selection exists for this exception cell.
                            e.      From the context menu for the required cell of the query, now choose New Formula.
                              f.      Drag the cell you have just defined, which you can find in the Operands window, under Cells, into the Formula window using Drag & Drop. Click on the button twice.
                            g.      Enter a description.
                            h.      Choose OK. The cell contains the description of the formula. The symbol shows you that a formula exists for this exception cell.
In the help cells that are already defined in the context menu, you can:
·        Edit the cell definition
·        Delete the cell definition
·        Display the where-used list for the cell
·        Change the description of the cell under Properties.
Regards,
Shiva Kumar G.C

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New selection
1. Select a cell in the Cell screen area and choose New Selection with the secondary mouse button. The new selection that is not yet defined appears in the cell.
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Result
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