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23. Click the WordArt graphic and then try nudging it with one of the arrow keys.
24. Use the Regroup option on the Grouping shortcut menu to re-create the compos-
ite block arrow with WordArt graphic object.
25. Save your work as a new workbook with the filename Solved15-1.xls in your
Chapter 15 folder in the My Practice Spreadsheets folder and then close the
workbook.

Using the Drawing Toolbar

Excel’s Drawing toolbar is packed with great tools for creating and adding all types of
graphic objects. About the only graphic that you can’t bring in from this toolbar is one
that you create on a scanner or import from a digital camera attached to your computer
(to do that, you have to rely on the Insert➪Picture➪From Scanner or Camera menu
command). For all the rest of your graphic needs, the Drawing toolbar is your ticket.
Figure 15-3 shows the Drawing toolbar and identifies the buttons that use only icons
without text. When you first open the Drawing toolbar (by choosing View➪Toolbar➪
Drawing), Excel automatically docks this toolbar at the bottom of the Excel window
right above the Status bar. You can then move the Drawing toolbar to another side of
the Excel window or even float it if you wish.

Shadow Style
Insert Diagram or Organization Chart Insert Picture from File
Rectangle Fill Color Dash Style
Figure 15-3:
You can use Line Text box Font Color
the tools on
the Drawing
toolbar for
almost all
your graphic Select Objects Arrow Oval Line Style 3-D Style
needs.
Insert WordArt Line Color Arrow Style
Insert Clip Art Insert Ink Drawing and Writing

Note that drop-down menus from which you can select drawing commands and prede-
fined shapes to draw are attached to the Draw and AutoShapes buttons. Pop-up palettes,
from which you can select new fill, line, and font color, shading, and 3-D effect for
selected graphic objects, are attached to the Fill Color, Line Color, Font Color, Shadow
Style, and 3-D Style buttons.

Inserting clip art

Microsoft includes a wide variety of ready-to-use images called Clip Art that you can
easily insert in your worksheets. To make it easy to do this, later versions of Excel
include an Insert Clip Art Task pane from which you can conduct word searches for
the types of images you want to use.

To choose a clip to paste into a worksheet, click the Insert Clip Art button on the
Drawing toolbar. Doing this opens the Insert Clip Art Task bar, where you can search