Excel® 2013 On Demand

Introduction

When you want to add objects to a workbook, you can use Microsoft Excel as a drawing package. Excel offers a wide range of predesigned shapes, line options or freeform tools that allow you to draw, size, and format your own shapes and forms.

You can add several types of drawing objects to your Excel workbooks—shapes, text boxes, lines, and freeforms. Shapes are preset objects, such as stars, circles, or ovals. Text boxes are objects with text, a shape without a border. Lines are simply the straight or curved lines (arcs) that can connect two points or are used as arrows. Freeforms are irregular curves or polygons that you can create as a freehand drawing.

Once you create a drawing object, you can move, resize, nudge, copy or delete ...