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To get a better view of a particular image whose thumbnail is highlighted or selected in the list, click the View Larger button that appears in the thumb- nail’s lower-right corner (with the magnifying glass with a plus sign in its icon). Excel then displays a slightly larger version of the thumbnail in the center of the dialog box while at the same time blurring out all the other thumbnails in the background.
To insert one of the located web images into the current worksheet, double- click its thumbnail if it’s not already selected in the list. If the thumbnail is selected, you can insert the image by selecting the Insert button or by press- ing Enter.
Keep in mind that the major difference between downloading a clip art image and downloading an image with Bing is that, by and large, most clip art images are drawn illustrations, whereas almost all the images located through Bing are photographs. Remember, you can also download pictures saved in folders on your SkyDrive by clicking the Browse button to the right of the SkyDrive heading at the bottom of the Insert Pictures dialog box.
Inserting local pictures
If you want to bring in an image such as a digital photo or a scanned image saved locally on your computer in one of its local or network drives, choose the Pictures option from the Illustrations button’s drop-down menu on the Ribbon’s Insert tab or just press Alt+NP. Just be aware that, depending upon the size of the photo or digital image, inserting such a graphic can dramati- cally increase the size of your Excel workbook file.
This opens the Insert Picture dialog box similar to the one shown in Figure 2-8. Selecting a graphics file to insert into your worksheet in this dialog box works very much like selecting an Excel workbook file to open in the Open dialog box: Select the drive and folder containing the graphics file in the Navigation pane on the left. Next, select the file to insert by clicking the thumbnail of graphics image before clicking the Insert button to open it and insert its image into your open worksheet.
If you want to bring in a graphic image created in another graphics program that’s not saved in its own file, you select the graphic in that program and then copy it to the Clipboard. (Press Ctrl+C.) When you get back to your worksheet, place the cursor where you want the picture to go and then paste the image in place. (Press Ctrl+V or click the Paste command button at the very beginning of the Home tab.)
Book V Chapter 2
Adding Graphic Objects