Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 10. Creating Spiffy Graphics

• Using the Drawing Tools

• Creating Graphic Objects

• Working with Graphic Objects

• Inserting Other Objects

• More Tricks with Objects

• Gallery of Spiffy Examples

Microsoft Excel gives you the tools to create a variety of graphic objects—boxes, lines, circles, ovals, arcs, freeform polygons, text boxes, buttons, and a wide assortment of complex, predefined objects called AutoShapes. You can specify font, pattern, color, and line formats, and you can position objects in relation to the worksheet or to other objects. You can also take pictures of your worksheets and use them in other Excel documents or in documents created in other applications. If you already have graphics created in other applications, Excel imports those ...