All right so I've got a couple of Excel shapes out there on my document.
Simple shapes nothing big.
I've got a rectangle round the corner rectangle and I've got an arrow.
Like I said nothing big.
But now let's take a look at some of the formatting.
I want these shapes to really stand out and draw the users in.
So first I'll take a look at the rectangle.
I'm going to select my rectangle and once I've selected this Excel sheet I now get a new tab at the
top of my screen.
The drawing tools Format tab.
And if I click on the Format tab I've got all my formatting options right here.
So like I said earlier I've got the rectangle but it's kind of solid fill color which is really blocking
out what I'm trying to draw attention to.
Well with that ship selected I'm going to go into the Format tab of my main shapes styles and I may
change the shape fill the color of the fill and I may say no fill.
I don't want any fill around it.
So now I've just got an outline a border around this shape and I'm going to form at the border of the
shape outline and I want to make it red.
I want to change the weight or the thickness.
Good like three points and I think that's looking pretty good.
Now I created this outline to really draw attention to that group of numbers and you know what I think
I'm going to shrink it up just a little bit so I can read that title.
Let's pull that in.
Let's make this look a little bit more professional inside it look a little bit cleaner in design.
There we go.
All right looking pretty solid.
Now on to do the same thing with my arrow.
I want to make it more presentable get it to stick out more.
So once again with the arrows selected back to my format tab I'm going to change the fill I mean and
make it let's do this red color right here.
I mean it change the outline I'll make it darker red and maybe I'll change that thickness of it as well
.
Let's go up maybe two and a quarter in the size.
Now I've got this nice thick red arrow that's really drawing attention to this 66 percent here.
So if this is your first time opening this document where are your.
Where are your eyes going to go right to that arrow rate to the red marks.
There not a whole lot of color in there right.
The red only shows up a little bit.
So it's going to really draw all the attention and I'm outlining areas I'm pointing at something.
It's a really strong indicator of hey look right here.
Right.
All by utilizing these simple little shapes.
Now I want to show off one more shape here before I close this discussion.
So where do we find shapes again.
You remember that back up to the Insert tab into illustrations shapes.
Now some of the shapes come with additional options such as the smiley face or maybe even the arrow
or show the arrows.
Well I mean I grab the smiley face.
I mean to go someplace and left click and drag just to create the smiley face.
There you go.
Some of the shapes come with additional little yellow markers on them.
And this allows you to manipulate some of the properties of the shape.
For example with the smiley face I can grab that little yellow marker and make it frown or I can make
it in difference.
It doesn't matter anyway.
It's just.
OK.
So you can manipulate that shape.
I could format this one as well with the arrow.
I get a couple of the little little yellow markers that I can increase the head of this arrow just by
moving that around.
I can change the thickness of the tail on this arrow so you can really start to manipulate this beyond
just colors.
Not all the shapes had this.
I think my rectangle does give a rounded quarter rectangle and I can change how round those corners
are.
So really starting to manipulate get the shapes to look exactly the way you want it to not just default
out of the box.
Plain boring simple shapes but add a little bit of style to do some formatting with them.
So try this out.
You've added some shapes.
Now do some formatting with them.
Change the border change the fill grab a couple of other shapes.
Play around with those little yellow markers on there to change the dynamics of the shapes but use them
to enhance trying not to distract me.
Maybe the smiley face although it's pretty neat.
Maybe it's just not needed.
I'm going to delete it.
Just select it in my delete key gone.
So try adding some shapes and mess around with the formatting found on the formatting tab that you get
with the say the shape that selected