Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Plain & Simple

Adding Fills to Drawing Objects

When you create a drawing object in Excel, you create a default version of the object, meaning that the object has the program’s usual color or pattern filling its interior. If you want to change the object’s appearance, you can select from a series of built-in styles that control the image’s fill color, outline, and text color. You can change these colors or patterns to bring the object’s appearance in line with your company’s color scheme or to make an object stand out from its surroundings.

Apply a Shape Style

1. Click the object you want to format.

2. Click the Format tab.

3. In the Shape Styles group on the ribbon, ...