From the course: Excel: Tips and Tricks (2023)

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Create and manipulate shapes with the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys

Create and manipulate shapes with the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys

From the course: Excel: Tips and Tricks (2023)

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Create and manipulate shapes with the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys

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- [Instructor] On this worksheet called Shapes, we're seeing three different shapes. These are easy to create. Perhaps you're designing a logo or perhaps you just want a banner that has some text in it, you'll find these on the Insert tab in the ribbon under Illustrations, Shapes, and lots of choices here, about 200 of them. Block arrows, flow charts, stars, and banners, lots of different shapes here. And one of the common shapes would be a rectangle or a circle, an oval. Here's an oval. Notice, by the way, you don't see a circle in here. I'm going to click the oval and create an oval, like the red oval that we see. I can make that wide. I could make it tall. If I want to make it a perfect circle, I'll hold down the Shift key, and I'll be sure to let go of the mouse first, and the same thing applies when creating a rectangle. Insert, Illustrations, same location, Shapes. Here's a rectangle that I'd used recently, so…

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