Adding Visuals, Themes, and Styles to Excel 2010 Workbooks

Overview/Description
Excel has more than just charts to offer in the way of visual presentation. Nonchart-related graphic tools such as Shapes, SmartArt, WordArt, ClipArt, and Screenshots are all ways to enhance the visual impact of documents that tend to be dominated by dry numbers and text. This course focuses on these and other graphic elements that can be added to Excel 2010 spreadsheets. This course also introduces ways to change the themes and styles offered by Excel 2010.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Adding Visuals, Themes, and Styles to Excel 2010 Workbooks

insert illustrations, including pictures, clip art, shapes, and SmartArt graphics, into a worksheet

use Excel's image editing tools to format illustrations

insert a screenshot into a workbook

add text features to a worksheet

use cell styles to apply consistent formatting

apply an Excel theme to a worksheet

add a picture and clip art to a worksheet

add a screenshot to a worksheet

apply a theme and a cell style