26. Decorating Spreadsheets

Images and artwork provide an interesting visual break from tables of numbers in Excel 2016. Office 2016 provides six elements that you can use to illustrate a workbook:

Image SmartArt—SmartArt is a collection of similar shapes, arranged to imply a process, groups, or a hierarchy. You can add new shapes, reverse the order of shapes, and change the color of shapes. SmartArt includes a text editor that allows for Level 1 and Level 2 text for each shape in a diagram. Many styles of SmartArt include the capability to add a small picture or logo to each shape.

Shapes—You can add interesting shapes to a document. Shapes can contain ...

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