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554 Inserting Different Types of Graphics
Click the graphic object’s name in the Selection task pane to select it for editing or formatting whenever the object is difficult to select directly in the worksheet by clicking its shape or image, which is often the case when the object’s part of a stack of graphics. If you want to rename the graphic from the generic name Excel gives it (Right Arrow 1, Right Arrow 2, and so forth), click the name in the Selection task pane and then edit or replace it in the text box that then appears. When you finish editing the graphic’s name, click outside the text box to apply the new name.
Inserting Different Types of Graphics
Excel makes it easy for you to insert five different types of graphic images into your worksheets using the options on the Illustrations button’s menu on the Insert tab:
✦ Pictures to import photos and other types of digital artwork saved locally on your computer, often in the Pictures library
✦ Online Pictures to download and insert photos and other types of graphic images saved online — these online images include clip art saved on the Office.com website, web images that you locate using the Bing search engine, or images that you’ve saved in the cloud on your SkyDrive
✦ Shapes to draw predefined and free-form graphic shapes using any of the shape thumbnails displayed on the drop-down gallery attached to the Shapes option
✦ SmartArt to generate complex graphical lists and relationship charts (like organizational charts) using the gallery opened by selecting the SmartArt option
✦ Screenshot to take a snapshot of all or part of your Windows desktop and insert it as a graphic object in your worksheet
Adding clip art
Clip art is the name given to the ready-made illustrations offered by Microsoft for use in its various Microsoft Office programs, including Excel 2013. Clip art drawings are now so numerous that the images cover almost every classification of image that you can think of.
To insert a piece of clip art into your worksheet, you follow these few steps:
1. Choose Illustrations➪Online Pictures on the Insert tab (Alt+NF).
Excel opens the Insert Pictures dialog box with the Office.com Clip Art text already selected, as shown in Figure 2-5.