Chapter 13. Working with Graphics

Add Shapes

Excel provides many ready-made shapes that you can add to enhance the appearance of your worksheet or draw attention to important information.

Excel offers several categories of shapes, including Lines, Basic Shapes, Block Arrows, Callouts, and Stars and Banners.

Each category contains individual shapes, which you can select and resize to place in the worksheet. You can later move and resize the shape to better suit your needs. You can also delete any shape that you no longer need.

After selecting the shape that you want to create, you can drag it out to a size in the worksheet. When you release the mouse to create the shape, it remains selected, allowing you to easily resize or move it. For information ...

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