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Creating colorful 3D buttons for worksheet annotation and macro buttons

Creating colorful 3D buttons for worksheet annotation and macro buttons - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

From the course: Excel Tips Weekly

Creating colorful 3D buttons for worksheet annotation and macro buttons

- [Instructor] The colorful buttons 2 you're seeing on this worksheet 3 could contain text. 4 One of them actually does. 5 These can also be associated with macros, 6 and they have an interesting 3D kind of look to them. 7 They're easy to create, 8 and they do have a functional purpose; 9 for example, the macros that I suggested. 10 Let's show how to create one of these 11 and then use it for macros. 12 In most of these examples, except for the circle, 13 we're talking about simply two shapes 14 put on top of one another and shaded in opposite directions. 15 Let's create one. 16 We can do this from the INSERT tab in the ribbon. 17 We'll see a Shapes button. 18 This could look a little larger 19 depending upon your screen resolution. 20 I'll just pick the rounded rectangle option. 21 Highlight like this. Maybe I prefer a different color. 22 There is a contextual tab that's present, FORMAT tab. 23 How about Shape Fill…

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