Excel 2010 Bible

Part III: Creating Charts and Graphics

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Inserting a Shape

You can add a Shape to a worksheet’s draw layer by choosing Insert ➪ Illustrations ➪ Shapes,

which opens the Shapes gallery, shown in Figure 22.1. Shapes are organized into categories, and

the category at the top displays the Shapes that you’ve used recently. To insert a Shape on a work-

sheet, you can do one of the following:

l Click the Shape in the Shapes gallery and then click in the worksheet. A default-sized

shape is added to your worksheet.

l Click the Shape and then drag in the worksheet to create a larger or smaller Shape, or a

Shape with different proportions than the default

When you release the mouse button, the object is selected, and its name appears in the Name field

(as shown in Figure 22.2).

FIGURE 22.1

The Shapes gallery.