Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Inside Out

Formatting Graphics

After you create or insert a graphic object, Excel 2010 provides plenty of new and powerful tools you can use to modify it. Most of these tools are on hidden ribbon tabs that appear only when an object is selected. Three types of hidden tabs exist, depending on the object you select: SmartArt Tools, Drawing Tools, or Picture Tools appear on a menu bar above the new tabs. All three types include a Format tab; SmartArt Tools includes an additional tab, Design, which is discussed in Creating SmartArt on page 389. The controls available on the Format tab change depending on the type of object selected.

Using Picture Tools

When you select an inserted picture or piece of clip art, you can use the Format tab under Picture Tools to make ...