

The Shape Effects dropdown has a number of stylistics effects you can apply such as Shadow, Glow, Reflection, and more.The Shape Outline lets you change the line color, thickness, dash style, and arrow heads.The Shape Fill dropdown lets you apply different fill colors and gradients and also allows you to insert a picture as a shape's background.You can also use the Format Painter tool on the Home tab to quickly copy a format from one shape to another.Select the shape then set the font and font size on the Home tab. xls compatibility mode), the last two rows of styles will not render well.įonts are set for shapes the same way that they are for cells. If you are sharing the file with Excel 2000 users (i.e., the file is saved in. If you are sharing the document with Excel 2003 users, note that the last row of styles will not render well in Excel 2003. The shape styles are set by their theme number, so if you use one of the purple styles in Excel 2010, for example, and then open it in Excel 2013, 2016, or 2019, it will display with the new orange theme. Note that the styles changed in Excel 2013. When one or more shapes is selected, the Format tab displays the style gallery shown below. If you right-click on a shape and select Format Shape from the context menu, the format dialog will display and let you make changes to a wide Formatting Shapes There is a special dialog worth mentioning.
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The sections below show how to do basic shape and line formatting. There are so many formatting options in Excel, that it's too much to cover in a single article. Both can be added via the Insert Shapes gallery. Callouts are commonly used to add side comments, with their shape indicating that they are not a process step. Text boxes are often used to label the connectors coming out of decisions. There are two common ways to add notes to a flowchart. If an endpoint has a clear dot, it indicates that the connector wasn't connected. Release the left mouse button on a connection point, and the line will be selected with both end points highlighted by red dots.While still holding the left mouse bbutton down, drag the line to the next shape, where again the connection points are highlight.

Click the left mouse button down on the desired connection point.

Themes: Be careful changing the Theme on the Page Layout tab. To set the layout, click the Page Layout tab and use the Margins, Orientation, and (paper) Size dropdowns to change the settings if needed.

