Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Chapter 10. Creating Spiffy Graphics

Using the Shapes Tools

Creating WordArt

Creating SmartArt

Inserting Graphics

Formatting Graphics

Working with Graphic Objects

More Tricks with Graphic Objects

Gallery of Spiffy Examples

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 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 shapes, clip art, and the new SmartArt graphics. If you already have graphics created in other programs, Office Excel 2007 imports those graphics as well. Throughout this chapter, you’ll learn how to add graphics to worksheets, but you can also use many of the same kinds of effects when creating charts. First we’ll discuss creating ...