Chapter 23Enhancing Your Work with Pictures and Drawings
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Inserting and customizing Shapes
- Getting an overview of SmartArt and WordArt
- Working with other types of graphics
When it comes to visual presentation, Excel has a lot more up its sleeve than charts. As you may know, you can insert a variety of graphics into your worksheet to add pizzazz to an otherwise boring report.
This chapter describes the non-chart-related graphics tools available in Excel. These tools consist of Shapes, SmartArt, WordArt, imported images, and more. In addition to enhancing your worksheets, you'll find that working with these objects can be a nice diversion. When you need a break from crunching numbers, you might enjoy creating an artistic masterpiece using Excel's graphics tools.
Using Shapes
Microsoft Office, including Excel, provides access to a variety of customizable graphics images known as Shapes. You might want to insert Shapes to create simple diagrams, display text, or just add some visual appeal to a worksheet.
Keep in mind that Shapes can add unnecessary clutter to a worksheet. Perhaps the best advice is to use Shapes sparingly. Ideally, Shapes can help draw attention to some aspect of your worksheet. They shouldn't be the main attraction.
Inserting a Shape ...
Get Excel 2016 Bible now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
