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560 Inserting Different Types of Graphics
You can also use the command buttons in the Picture Styles group to format the selected graphic image. Click a thumbnail on the Picture Styles drop- down gallery to select a new orientation and style for the selected picture or select a new border shape on the Picture Shape button’s drop-down palette, a new border color on the Picture Border button’s drop-down color palette, or a new shadow or 3-D rotation effect from the Picture Effects button’s drop-down menu.
Figure 2-9 shows an imported tablet PC clip art image as it’s being formatted in Live Preview with Double Frame, Black on the Picture Styles drop-down gallery. Note that in this style, Excel places the image in an inner light black frame surrounded by a much heavier outer frame.
Keep in mind that you can remove a uniform background in a selected picture by clicking the Remove Background button in the Format tab’s Adjust group. Excel then adds a Background Removal contextual tab to the Ribbon and applies a violet filter to the identified background of the selected picture. You can then adjust the violet filter to indicate the extent of the image background to be removed. Then, you click the Keep Changes button on the Background Removal contextual tab to close it and to remove the image’s background.
Figure 2-9:
Live Preview in the Picture Styles gallery enables you to see how a style affects your picture before you apply it.