The Drawing Tools – Format tab offers numerous options for shape creation and formatting. The Insert Shapes and Shape Styles groups on the Drawing Tools – Format tab are the centerpieces of Office’s suite of shape-creation and shape-formatting tools. They offer a multitude of options for modifying and enhancing shapes, such as specifying a shape’s fill, outline, and effects. The rest of this section focuses on the many shape-formatting options available on this tab. Working with Shape Quick Styles One way to format a shape quickly is to apply a Quick Style. Quick Styles offer numerous fill, shading, and border options in colors that coordinate with your chosen theme. To apply a Quick Style to a shape, follow these steps: • Select the shape to which you want to apply the style. • On the Drawing Tools – Format tab, click the down arrow to the right of the Shape Styles box to open the Shape Styles gallery, as shown in. Add colors or patterns to fill an object. You can do any of the following in this palette: • Apply one of the theme, recent, or standard colors. The theme colors are compatible with your chosen color scheme. • Select No Fill to make the object transparent. You see the document background through the object. • Select More Fill Colors to open the Colors dialog box, where you can choose from many other colors or create a custom color. • Select Eyedropper to choose a fill color by clicking an existing color on the screen. (This option is available only in PowerPoint.) • Select Picture to fill your shape with a picture you select. • Select Gradient to apply a light or dark gradient pattern. • Select Texture to fill the shape with one of the available texture patterns in the gallery that appears. NOTE Red, green, and blue represent the amount of each of these primary colors in the color you create. I tried out Excel 2010 drawing tools today and what used to be a simple friendly tool set is now a clunky awkward interface. I was using it extensively in Excel 2003 for line drawings (metering schematics using drawing obkects and connectors). The RGB color wheel is based on projected light—the kind you see with computer screen projection. Hue represents the actual color, saturation represents the color’s intensity, and luminance represents the color’s brightness. In general, the lower the number, the lighter or less intense the color is. Applying a Picture Fill You can even fill an object with a picture. For example, you could create a shape such as a circle and fill it with a logo, product image, or photo. To apply a picture fill, follow these steps: • Select the shape to which you want to apply the picture fill. • On the Drawing Tools – Format tab, click the Shape Fill button and then choose Picture from the menu. • In the Insert Pictures dialog box, do one of the following: • Click the Browse button next to the From a File field to open the Insert Picture dialog box, where you can select a picture on your computer to insert. • Enter keywords in the Search Office.com field and press the Enter key to search the Office.com online clip art collection. • Enter keywords in the Search Bing field to search Bing for relevant pictures. • Click the Browse button next to the SkyDrive field to insert a picture you stored on your SkyDrive account. • Click the Flickr button to insert a picture from your Flickr account. See Chapter 4, “Working with Pictures,” to learn more about the Insert Pictures dialog box. CAUTION Some pictures just don’t work well as fills. Look at yours carefully. If it doesn’t look good, press Ctrl+Z to undo it and then apply another fill.
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