Microsoft Excel X for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

The Drawing Toolbar

Excel's Drawing toolbar (Figure 1) includes a wide range of tools you can use to add lines, arrows, shapes, and text boxes to your worksheets and charts. Through creative use of these tools, you can add impact and improve appearance for all of your Excel documents.

Figure 1. The Drawing toolbar.

To display the Drawing toolbar

Click the Drawing button on the Standard toolbar. The button turns gray (Figure 2) when the Drawing toolbar is displayed.

Figure 2. When you click the Drawing button, it turns gray.

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Choose View > Toolbars ...