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Inserting shapes, arrows, and other visual features

Inserting shapes, arrows, and other visual features - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Inserting shapes, arrows, and other visual features

If you'd like to add visuals, pictures, icons or shapes to a worksheet, the Insert Tab in the ribbon provides us with a number of choices, for example, pictures. In files that ship with this course, you will see some pictures in Chapter 4, here's one for the company here that makes clothing items. We want to show this in the worksheet. Just double-click it and there it is. We can move this around. We can drag its edge or just inside. If you drag one of the corner handles as they're called, you can make this bigger or smaller keeping the same proportion. Dragging the side handles sometimes distorts it or does whatever you wish with it, but you can do that too. Recognize also that when this enters the worksheet environment here, there is a new ribbon called Picture Tools with a Format Tab on it. Exploring all the options here would take you a long time, but maybe I like that one. If that weren't enough, how about moving this over a little bit maybe here, some picture effects and just…

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