Excel 2019: Use Shapes, SmartArt & Icons
Excel 2019 - Working With Shapes, SmartArt, and Icons
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Course description
This course shows how to add clear, professional visuals to your worksheets using Shapes, SmartArt, and Icons. You will start by inserting and formatting shapes, exploring contextual tabs to apply preset styles, custom fills, outlines, and effects, and using WordArt options when text is involved. You’ll learn practical layout skills, bringing objects forward or sending them backward, using the Selection Pane to manage layers, aligning and grouping multiple objects, rotating with precision, and setting exact height and width without relying only on sizing handles. Next, you’ll work with SmartArt to quickly convey lists, processes, cycles, hierarchies, and relationships. You’ll insert SmartArt, open the Text Pane for efficient editing, promote or demote items to clarify structure, switch layouts, apply style and color variants (including 3D options), reset formatting, and convert SmartArt to shapes when needed. Finally, you’ll insert modern SVG icons, understand why vector graphics scale cleanly, recolor icons with graphic styles, and see what changes when converting icons to shapes. Along the way, accessibility considerations such as alternative text are highlighted so your visuals communicate effectively to every viewer. By the end, you’ll be able to enhance data stories with tidy, aligned, and readable visuals that complement your sheet content without clutter.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of Excel 2019 - Working With Shapes, SmartArt, and Icons
- Work confidently with the core tools and features
- Build toward beginner-level fluency
- Apply skills to real, on-the-job tasks
- Follow best practices and avoid common pitfalls
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