Using the Drawing Toolbar

Like drawing on paper, using Excel's Draw feature takes patience and practice. The Drawing toolbar offers many drawing tools for drawing and modifying lines and shapes, including 3D shapes. The drawing tools also come in handy for annotating your worksheet data and charts.

To display the Drawing toolbar, you click the Drawing button on the Standard toolbar. Figure 11.1 depicts the tools on the Drawing toolbar. To hide the Drawing toolbar, click the Drawing button on the Standard toolbar again.

Figure 11.1. The tools on the Drawing toolbar.

Table 11.1 lists the drawing tools on the Drawing toolbar and describes what they ...

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