How to add a Clip Art to an Excel document in Excel 2007
Clip Art is the name given to the over 150,000 ready made illustrations offered by Microsoft for use in its various Microsoft Office programs, including Excel 2007. Clip Art drawings are now so numerous that the images are classified into a bunch of different categories ranging from Abstract to Web Elements.
To bring in a piece of Clip Art included with Office 2007, you click the Clip Art button on the Ribbon’s Insert tab or press Alt+NF. When you do this, Excel 2007 displays the Clip Art task pane
from which you search for the type of art you want to use. To locate the clip(s) you want to insert into the current worksheet in the Clip Art task pane, you follow these steps:
1. Click the Search For text box at the top, and then enter the keywords for the type of Clip Art you want to find.
When you enter keywords for finding particular types of Clip Art, try general, descriptive terms such as trees, flowers, people, flying, and the like.
2. (Optional) Click the Search In drop-down button and remove (deselect) check marks from any Clip Art collections that you don't want to search.
By default, Excel searches all the collections of Clip Art (including the Media Gallery Online collection on the Web). To limit your search, you need to make sure that only the Clip Art collections you want to include in the search have check marks before their names.
3. (Optional) To limit the search to Clip Art only, click the Results Should Be drop-down button and remove check marks from the All Media Types, Photographs, Movies, and Sounds categories.
You can further limit the types of Clip Art files included in the search by clicking the plus sign in front of Clip Art and then removing check marks from any and all types of clips (such as CorelDraw or Macintosh PICT) that you don't want or need to use.
4. Click the Go button to the immediate right of the Search For text box to initiate the search.
The first time you search for Clip Art, when you click the Go button, Excel displays an alert dialog box asking you if you want to include thousands of additional Clip Art images and photos from Microsoft Office Online in your search. If you click Yes, Excel includes these images in your search. Otherwise, Excel simply searches all of the places you specify in the Search In list before displaying the thumbnails of the search results in the Clip Art task pane.
To insert one of the thumbnails displayed in the Clip Art task pane into the current worksheet, click the thumbnail. You can also insert an image by positioning the mouse over it to display its drop-down button, clicking the drop-down button, and then choosing Insert at the top of its
drop-down menu.
When you insert a Clip Art image into the worksheet, it is automatically selected (indicated by the selection handles around its perimeter and its rotation handle at the top). To de-select the Clip Art image and set it in the worksheet, click anywhere in the worksheet outside of the image.
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