Adding Pictures and Shapes to a Worksheet
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LESSON SKILL MATRIX Skills
Exam Objective
Objective Number
Inserting Pictures
Insert images
5.3.2
Adding Shapes, Lines, Text Boxes, and WordArt
Insert text boxes and shapes
5.3.1
Formatting Graphics
Modify object properties
5.3.3
Adding Graphic Enhancements Using Picture Tools
Modify object properties
5.3.3
Adding Alternative Text to Pictures
Add alternative text to objects for accessibility Inspect a workbook for accessibility issues
5.3.4 1.5.7
SOFTWARE ORIENTATION The Insert Tab’s Illustration and Text Tools Excel isn’t just for crunching numbers or storing rows and rows of records. It contains a robust set of tools for turning data into charts; concepts and processes into diagrams; and adding photos, shapes, and other drawn content to make worksheets more interesting and more quickly understood. In this lesson, you focus on diagrams, images, shapes, and text-based graphics such as WordArt and text boxes, which are used to enhance a worksheet and help those viewing it to understand its content. Most of the graphical elements you can add to an Excel worksheet are generated from the Insert tab, shown in Figure 13-1, in the Illustrations and Text groups. (Click the Text button, as shown in Figure 13-1, if the icons in the Text group aren’t displayed on the Ribbon by default.) Everything from pictures, SmartArt, shapes, text boxes, and WordArt are found in these two clusters of buttons. Once you’ve inserted the graphical element you need, tools are presented to allow you to format, size, and position them to meet your needs. Illustrations group
Text group
Text button
Figure 13-1 The Insert tab’s Illustrations and Text groups
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