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Using Shapes to Display Cell Contents
All in all, SmartArt is a great addition to the Office family. The one real drawback related
to SmartArt in Excel 2007 is the inability to link cell content to the text in SmartArt. To do
that, you have to use shapes, as described in the following section.
Using Shapes to Display Cell Contents
Shapes were known in previous versions of Excel as AutoShapes. Microsoft has added new
shapes to the already long list of shapes available in AutoShapes. In addition, Excel 2007
shapes have some new formatting options, such as shadow, glow, and bevel.
Perhaps the best part of shapes is that you can tie the text on a shape ...