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Chapter 2: Adding Graphic Objects
In This Chapter
✓ Understanding what graphic objects are and how Excel treats them ✓ Managing graphic objects on the worksheet
✓ Adding online images to the spreadsheet
✓ Adding text boxes with arrows
✓ Inserting graphics files in the worksheet
✓ Adding WordArt text and SmartArt diagrams to the worksheet ✓ Capturing screenshots of the Windows desktop as Excel graphics ✓ Applying graphic themes to the worksheet
Just as charts can really help to clarify trends and implications that aren’t readily apparent in your worksheet data, graphics that you add to a worksheet can really spruce up your charts and make them read even better. Although you may often look at Excel graphic objects as chart enhancements, you can also use them to enhance regular spreadsheet data. Depending on the type of spreadsheet, you may even end up using graphic elements not simply as a way to embellish the data, but also as a supe-
rior way to actually present it in the worksheet, especially when the data requires diagrammatic presentation.
Excel supports two types of graphic objects: those that you create yourself from the Shapes gallery or with the SmartArt, Text Box, and WordArt com- mand buttons on the Insert tab of the Ribbon, and those created by others that you import with the Picture and Clip Art command buttons. This chapter covers how to create graphics with text and text as graphics, as well as basic graphic shapes. It also covers how to import two different types of graphic images: Microsoft’s clip art graphics along with pictures and digital photos stored in a variety of different graphics file formats that Excel can read.