7. Working with Graphic Objects

Graphic Objects

The Insert tab of Microsoft Excel’s Ribbon includes buttons and menus that make it easy to add a variety of graphic objects to your worksheets and charts:

Picture lets you add your own images, such as a company logo or product illustration.

Clip Art enables you to insert professionally created graphic images.

Shapes enables you to draw a variety of interesting and useful shapes, lines, and connectors quickly and easily.

SmartArt, which is new in Excel 2007, offers a wide variety of graphic elements that you can use to visually communicate information.

WordArt enables you to add highly stylized text to your documents.

Text boxes offer a flexible way to add annotations to a document. ...

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