Excel allows you to create drawing objects you can use in your worksheets. These objects (such as an oval, rectangle, line, or a variety of other shapes) are positioned on what is termed the "drawing layer," which is separate and distinct from the values or formulas in the cells of your worksheet. You generally create such objects by using the tools in the Illustrations group of the Insert tab of the ribbon. It is the Shapes tool that is used to create the objects. Follow these instructions:
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2020-04-07 23:24:09
Ed
I'm trying to improve the looks of my first page/worksheet of an Excel workbook and thinking that creating drawing objects might be a tool to do this. The problem is when I add hyperlinks into cells in the object and attempt to click on the hyperlink it immediately selects the whole object even when I "Send to the Back".
I currently background color a number of cells with various colors to group common topic items with hyperlinks, but the square corners just do not impress me. (see Figure 1 below) .
Figure 1.
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