Formatting objects

Since version 2007, Excel has been enriched with a wealth of options for “beautifying” reports, and from version to version it offers more of these functionalities that can be applied to the formatting of all graphic objects, whether these are charts or their elements, images, shapes, schemes … The following text will show how the appearance of the graphic object can change: its body, frames, the use of special formatting styles …

Adding shapes

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.