Excel

Changing the Look of Excel

With Excel 2013, what you see isn’t necessarily what you have to live with. This tip describes several ways to change the look of Excel. Some changes affect only the appearance. Other options allow you to hide various parts of Excel to make more room for displaying your data — or maybe because you prefer a less-cluttered look.

Cosmetic changes

Changing the Look of Cell Comments in Excel

Cell comments are useful for a variety of purposes. But sometimes you just get tired of looking at the same old yellow rectangle. This tip describes three tricks that you can use to make your comments stand out:

➤ Format a comment.

➤ Change the shape of a comment.

➤ Add an image to a comment.

Saving Shapes, Charts, and Ranges as Images in excel

Excel supports quite a few types of graphics, but it doesn’t provide a way to save the graphic as a separate file for use in another program. For example, you may want a separate PNG or GIF file created from a chart, a shape, SmartArt, or even a range pasted as a picture.