Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Plain & Simple

Adding Effects to Drawing Objects

When you add a drawing object to a worksheet, you can add text or color to the object to make it stand out from the rest of the worksheet’s contents. Other options you have to make the drawing objects stand out are to add a shadow to the object, which makes it appear that the object is raised off the surface of the worksheet or makes the object appear as if it is three-dimensional. Excel knows how to make its drawing objects appear as three-dimensional objects—all you need to do is describe how you want the object to look!

Add or Edit an Object’s Shadow

1. Click the object you want to edit.

2. If necessary, click ...