When we use Excel to create a diagram, we add a few shapes that we later link with arrows to illustrate the flow of the process. All graphic objects can be aligned manually, by dragging them and matching the position with respect to another object. However, all this can be done much easier with the object editing options, where we can still position, group, ungroup objects …
Excel has a large number of shapes (rectangles, ellipses, arrows, triangles, etc.) held into groups that we can use to illustrate a flowchart, process, hierarchy, organizational scheme … Excel can significantly replace Visio, whose purpose is to draw various diagrams, and allow us to display them in the report, and the text that follows will describe the ways they are added and edited.
There is a saying that “the picture speaks more than 1000 words”. By adding images, reports seem to look more beautiful and striking, and since 2007, Excel has several advanced image processing options. It is possible to change the contrast and brightness of the image, make it sharper or blurry, change colors … Also, we offer a number of filters that can change the image’s appearance in a similar way as we would do in some professional graphics design software.