Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Inserting a Picture in Your Worksheet.
Excel allows you to insert a wide range of picture (graphic) types in your worksheets. You can insert the following types:
| Picture Type | Filename Extension | |
|---|---|---|
| Compressed Enhanced Metafile | EMZ | |
| Compressed Macintosh PICT | PCZ | |
| Compressed Windows Metafile | WMZ | |
| Computer Graphics Metafile | CGM | |
| Encapsulated PostScript | EPS | |
| Enhanced Metafile | EMF | |
| Graphics Interchange Format | GIF | |
| JPEG Format | JPG, JPEG, JFIF, JPE | |
| Macintosh PICT | PCT, PICT | |
| Portable Network Graphics | PNG | |
| Tagged Image File Format | TIF, TIFF | |
| Windows Bitmap | BMP, DIB, RLE | |
| Windows Metafile | WMF | |
| WordPerfect Graphics | WPG |
This list looks very inclusive, but you may not be able to insert all of these on your system. The graphic files you can actually import depends on which import filters you installed. (They were installed when you installed Excel or Office.)
To insert a picture in your workbook, follow these steps:
Excel inserts the picture. You can then use the Format tab of the ribbon to change how text wraps around the picture or make other formatting changes to the image.
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2015-02-08 05:13:39
Tony K.
Hi Allen, great site with lots of awesome content. By the way, in case it interests your readers, the steps suggested in your article can be also automated with an add-in called Picture Manager for Excel found at http://doality.com ... The add-in supports Excel 2003 or greater versions on Windows platform and capable of swiftly handling exportation and renaming functionality as well as bulk insertion of images to/from single or multiple spreadsheets.
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