1. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall1 PowerPoint Presentation to Accompany GO! with Microsoft ® Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e Chapter 9 Inserting Graphic Elements into Worksheets and Charts

2. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall2 Objectives Format with Graphic Images Including WordArt to Enhance Worksheets Insert SmartArt Graphics Create, Edit, and Publish a Web Page Create Specialized Charts Format Column Charts with Pictures and Other Graphic Elements

3. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall3 Format with Graphic Images Including WordArt to Enhance Worksheets Microsoft Excel provides graphical elements: –Shapes, pictures, lines, clipart Text can also be formatted as art using WordArt. Graphics are used to emphasize and highlight specific data.

4. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall4 Format with Graphic Images Including WordArt to Enhance Worksheets Sizing handles are used to change the size of a selected object. Adjustment handles are used to adjust the appearance but not the size of the shape. Rotation handles are used to rotate the shape.

5. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall5 Format with Graphic Images Including WordArt to Enhance Worksheets WordArt is a gallery of text styles that you can use to create a distinctive logo or heading. WordArt changes text to a graphic element.

6. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall6 Format with Graphic Images Including WordArt to Enhance Worksheets Gradient fill is a gradual progression of colors and shades. Text effects add additional effects such as shadows, reflections, and 3- D rotations.

7. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall7 Insert SmartArt Graphics A SmartArt graphic is a designer- quality visual representation of information. –Examples include list, process, cycle, hierarchy, relationship, matrix, and pyramid. The size of shapes is altered in order to fully display entered text. Graphical elements can be inserted as background in a worksheet.

8. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall8 Insert SmartArt Graphics Categories of SmartArt

9. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall9 Create, Edit, and Publish a Web Page A Web page is a document that displays as a screen and is uploaded to the World Wide Web. –Contains links, frames, and other features Documents that are written for the Web are saved in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format.

10. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall10 Create, Edit, and Publish a Web Page Publish as Web Page dialog box

11. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall11 Create, Edit, and Publish a Web Page A hyperlink is text or a graphic that you click to go to another location in a worksheet or to another Web page. You can select to publish: –The entire workbook –An entire worksheet –Specific items –A range of cells –A chart

12. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall12 Create Specialized Charts A line chart displays data over time and shows trends over equal intervals of time. The plot area includes all of the data series. Series names are the labels for the categories that display in the legend.

13. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall13 Create Specialized Charts The value for each data series displays in the vertical axis. The categories display in the horizontal axis.

14. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall14 Create Specialized Charts Clip Art task pane Selected Clip Art image Rotation handle Sizing handles

15. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall15 Create Specialized Charts Area charts emphasize the magnitude of change over time. The chart area is the entire chart and all of its elements. Scatter charts are used for comparing numeric values and to plot two sets of numbers at the same time.

16. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall16 Create Specialized Charts A trendline is a graphic representation of the trends in a data series. A stock chart illustrates the fluctuation of stock prices. A data table displays the exact data in the worksheet.

17. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall17 Format Column Charts with Pictures and Other Graphic Elements Adding pictures in the data markers of a column chart adds interest to the chart. Two choices for formatting data points: –Stretch –Stack

18. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall18 Format Column Charts with Pictures and Other Graphic Elements To stack data points is to place images on top of each other without distorting the image.

19. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall19 Format Column Charts with Pictures and Other Graphic Elements Ocean as background Stacked data markers

20. with Microsoft Excel 2007 Comprehensive 1e© 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall20 Covered Objectives Format with Graphic Images Including WordArt to Enhance Worksheets Insert SmartArt Graphics Create, Edit, and Publish a Web Page Create Specialized Charts Format Column Charts with Pictures and Other Graphic Elements