Excel® 2013 On Demand

Applying Picture Fills

Applying a shape fill to a drawing object can add emphasis or create a point of interest in your document. You can insert a picture or clip art into a shape. You can insert a picture from a file, clip art on Office.com (New!), Bing Image Search (New!), online service (New!), such as Flickr, SkyDrive (New!), or Office 365 SharePoint (New!). Stretch a picture to fit across the selected shape or repeatedly tile it horizontally and vertically to fill the shape. When you stretch an image, you can also set offsets, which determine how much to scale an image to fit a shape relative to the edges. A positive offset number moves the image edge toward the center of the shape, while a negative offset number moves the image edge away ...