So we're talking about inserting additional elements into an Excel document.
We just saw images those two little images there at the top.
Very nice.
More visual.
Now we want to take a look at what's called Excel shapes through Excel shapes.
We have all sorts of shapes that we can add to an Excel document.
We've got simple shapes like squares and rectangles and circles and pyramids triangles all sorts of
shapes.
We've got arrows and banners and call out bubbles and explosions and all kind of star looking shapes
.
Now what we've got all these basic shapes that we can use to add additional content to our documents
something more visual.
Now once again something we don't want to get too overboard on in too much clutter going on our page
but use it to enhance the document not to distract unless that's your purpose.
Maybe we did really crummy in sales and I'm thrown all of this garbage out there just to distract people
so we could use it to do that.
But still the same keep it simple.
And what I'll use shapes for is to draw attention to specific areas of my document maybe circle areas
or draw arrows to point at specific elements within my spreadsheet.
Take a look.
Is this how you work with Excel shapes.
This is another insert command.
So on my insert tab back in the illustrations I got what looks like a couple of basic shapes squares
circle in a diamond.
If I get that a click it's going to open up my shapes menu and you can see I got all sorts of stuff
in there.
Well for me you know what I'm going to grab this one this rounded corner rectangle.
I'll give that a click.
I'm going to come out and just click and drag some place to create a rectangle just left click and drag
there's my triangle.
Great.
I got some default formatting and it's got a light blue fill a dark blue border around it.
That's great but what am I going to use this for is just a rectangle.
Well what I want to do here is I want to highlight.
I want to draw a rectangle that is going to move it over here that highlights all my totals.
So I've got that.
But this rectangles got a darker color so I can't see through my numbers.
I just want to draw a breathtaking all around it to draw attention to those totals.
So with that highlighted I could do some additional formatting here.
I'm up on my ribbon top of my screen with my shapes selected.
I've now got a Format tab where I got all this various formatting that I can get into changing the color
changing the border and so on.
Let's take a look at those features here just a moment because I'm one to see behind that box.
Let's try another shape before we do this though.
Let's see where do we find shapes at.
I want to draw a little arrow that points to the 66 percent that's just ridiculous right.
That's too much of my income going to rent.
So I want to draw nice big fat arrow pointing to that draw attention to that 66 percent.
So once again back to inserts backed shapes and I'm going to grab one of these block arrows.
I mean I grab this one this left arrow so at that selected will come out here.
Left click and drag and I've now created this nice little arrow pointing to that 60 percent right you
open up this document.
What do you look at.
There's an arrow pointing right.
There's a box in there drawing attention for our users.
So try this out we're going to use them for many here in a moment but draw a few shapes just insert
shapes whatever you want to do there.
Draws them shapes to draw attention to the content